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VGREMOVE(8)                 System Manager's Manual                VGREMOVE(8)

NAME
       vgremove -- Remove volume group(s)

SYNOPSIS
       vgremove position_args
           [ option_args ]

DESCRIPTION
       vgremove  removes  one or more VGs. If LVs exist in the VG, a prompt is
       used to confirm LV removal.

       If one or more PVs in the VG are lost, consider vgreduce  --removemiss-
       ing to make the VG metadata consistent again.

       Repeat  the force option (-ff) to forcibly remove LVs in the VG without
       confirmation.

USAGE
       vgremove VG|Tag|Select ...
           [ -f|--force ]
           [ -S|--select String ]
           [    --noudevsync ]
           [    --reportformat basic|json|json_std ]
           [ COMMON_OPTIONS ]

       Common options for lvm:
           [ -d|--debug ]
           [ -h|--help ]
           [ -q|--quiet ]
           [ -t|--test ]
           [ -v|--verbose ]
           [ -y|--yes ]
           [    --commandprofile String ]
           [    --config String ]
           [    --devices PV ]
           [    --devicesfile String ]
           [    --driverloaded y|n ]
           [    --journal String ]
           [    --lockopt String ]
           [    --longhelp ]
           [    --nohints ]
           [    --nolocking ]
           [    --profile String ]
           [    --version ]

OPTIONS
       --commandprofile String
              The command profile  to  use  for  command  configuration.   See
              lvm.conf(5) for more information about profiles.

       --config String
              Config settings for the command. These override lvm.conf(5) set-
              tings.  The String arg uses the same format as  lvm.conf(5),  or
              may use section/field syntax.  See lvm.conf(5) for more informa-
              tion about config.

       -d|--debug ...
              Set debug level. Repeat from 1 to 6 times to increase the detail
              of messages sent to the log file and/or syslog (if configured).

       --devices PV
              Restricts  the  devices  that  are visible and accessible to the
              command.  Devices not listed will appear to be missing. This op-
              tion  can  be repeated, or accepts a comma separated list of de-
              vices. This overrides the devices file.

       --devicesfile String
              A file listing devices that LVM should use.  The file must exist
              in  /etc/lvm/devices/ and is managed with the lvmdevices(8) com-
              mand.  This overrides the  lvm.conf(5)  devices/devicesfile  and
              devices/use_devicesfile settings.

       --driverloaded y|n
              If set to no, the command will not attempt to use device-mapper.
              For testing and debugging.

       -f|--force ...
              Override various checks,  confirmations  and  protections.   Use
              with extreme caution.

       -h|--help
              Display help text.

       --journal String
              Record  information in the systemd journal.  This information is
              in addition to information enabled by the  lvm.conf  log/journal
              setting.   command:  record information about the command.  out-
              put: record the default command output.  debug: record full com-
              mand debugging.

       --lockopt String
              Used  to  pass  options for special cases to lvmlockd.  See lvm-
              lockd(8) for more information.

       --longhelp
              Display long help text.

       --nohints
              Do not use the hints file to locate devices for PVs.  A  command
              may  read  more devices to find PVs when hints are not used. The
              command will still perform standard hint file invalidation where
              appropriate.

       --nolocking
              Disable  locking. Use with caution, concurrent commands may pro-
              duce incorrect results.

       --noudevsync
              Disables udev synchronization. The process will not wait for no-
              tification  from udev. It will continue irrespective of any pos-
              sible udev processing in the background. Only use this  if  udev
              is not running or has rules that ignore the devices LVM creates.

       --profile String
              An alias for --commandprofile or --metadataprofile, depending on
              the command.

       -q|--quiet ...
              Suppress output and log messages. Overrides --debug  and  --ver-
              bose.   Repeat  once  to  also  suppress any prompts with answer
              'no'.

       --reportformat basic|json|json_std
              Overrides current output format for  reports  which  is  defined
              globally  by  the  report/output_format  setting in lvm.conf(5).
              basic is the original format with columns and rows.  If there is
              more  than  one report per command, each report is prefixed with
              the report name for identification. json produces report  output
              in  JSON  format. json_std produces report output in JSON format
              which is more compliant with JSON  standard.   See  lvmreport(7)
              for more information.

       -S|--select String
              Select  objects  for processing and reporting based on specified
              criteria.  The criteria syntax is described by --select help and
              lvmreport(7).   For reporting commands, one row is displayed for
              each object matching the criteria.  See --options help  for  se-
              lectable  object  fields.   Rows  can be displayed with an addi-
              tional "selected" field (-o  selected)  showing  1  if  the  row
              matches  the  selection and 0 otherwise.  For non-reporting com-
              mands which process LVM  entities,  the  selection  is  used  to
              choose items to process.

       -t|--test
              Run  in  test  mode. Commands will not update metadata.  This is
              implemented by disabling all metadata writing  but  nevertheless
              returning  success to the calling function. This may lead to un-
              usual error messages in multi-stage operations if a tool  relies
              on reading back metadata it believes has changed but hasn't.

       -v|--verbose ...
              Set  verbose level. Repeat from 1 to 4 times to increase the de-
              tail of messages sent to stdout and stderr.

       --version
              Display version information.

       -y|--yes
              Do not prompt for confirmation interactively but  always  assume
              the  answer  yes.  Use with extreme caution.  (For automatic no,
              see -qq.)

VARIABLES
       VG     Volume Group name.  See lvm(8) for valid names.

       Tag    Tag name.  See lvm(8) for information about tag names and  using
              tags in place of a VG, LV or PV.

       Select Select  indicates  that  a  required positional parameter can be
              omitted if the --select option is used.  No arg appears in  this
              position.

       String See the option description for information about the string con-
              tent.

       Size[UNIT]
              Size is an input number that accepts an  optional  unit.   Input
              units are always treated as base two values, regardless of capi-
              talization, e.g. 'k' and 'K' both refer to  1024.   The  default
              input unit is specified by letter, followed by |UNIT.  UNIT rep-
              resents other possible input units: b|B is bytes, s|S is sectors
              of  512  bytes,  k|K is KiB, m|M is MiB, g|G is GiB, t|T is TiB,
              p|P is PiB, e|E is EiB.  (This should not be confused  with  the
              output  control  --units, where capital letters mean multiple of
              1000.)

ENVIRONMENT VARIABLES
       See lvm(8) for information about environment  variables  used  by  lvm.
       For example, LVM_VG_NAME can generally be substituted for a required VG
       parameter.

SEE ALSO
       lvm(8), lvm.conf(5), lvmconfig(8), lvmdevices(8),

       pvchange(8), pvck(8), pvcreate(8), pvdisplay(8), pvmove(8),
       pvremove(8), pvresize(8), pvs(8), pvscan(8),

       vgcfgbackup(8), vgcfgrestore(8), vgchange(8), vgck(8), vgcreate(8),
       vgconvert(8), vgdisplay(8), vgexport(8), vgextend(8), vgimport(8),
       vgimportclone(8), vgimportdevices(8), vgmerge(8), vgmknodes(8),
       vgreduce(8), vgremove(8), vgrename(8), vgs(8), vgscan(8), vgsplit(8),

       lvcreate(8), lvchange(8), lvconvert(8), lvdisplay(8), lvextend(8),
       lvreduce(8), lvremove(8), lvrename(8), lvresize(8), lvs(8), lvscan(8),

       lvm-fullreport(8), lvm-lvpoll(8), blkdeactivate(8), lvmdump(8),

       dmeventd(8), lvmpolld(8), lvmlockd(8), lvmlockctl(8), cmirrord(8),
       lvmdbusd(8), fsadm(8),

       lvmsystemid(7), lvmreport(7), lvmcache(7), lvmraid(7), lvmthin(7),
       lvmvdo(7), lvmautoactivation(7)

Red Hat, Inc.          LVM TOOLS 2.03.22(2) (2023-08-02)           VGREMOVE(8)

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