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LVREMOVE(8) System Manager's Manual LVREMOVE(8)
NAME top
lvremove — Remove logical volume(s) from the systemSYNOPSIS top
**lvremove** _positionargs_
[ _optionargs_ ]DESCRIPTION top
lvremove removes one or more LVs. For standard LVs, this returns
the logical extents that were used by the LV to the VG for use by
other LVs.
Confirmation will be requested before deactivating any active LV
prior to removal. LVs cannot be deactivated or removed while they
are open (e.g. if they contain a mounted filesystem). Removing an
origin LV will also remove all dependent snapshots.
When a single force option is used, LVs are removed without
confirmation, and the command will try to deactivate unused LVs.
To remove damaged LVs, two force options may be required (**-ff**).
**Historical LVs**
If the configuration setting **metadata/record_lvs_history** is
enabled and the LV being removed forms part of the history of at
least one LV that is still present, then a simplified
representation of the LV will be retained. This includes the time
of removal (**lv_time_removed** reporting field), creation time
(**lv_time**), name (**lv_name**), LV uuid (**lv_uuid**) and VG name
(**vg_name**). This allows later reporting to see the ancestry chain
of thin snapshot volumes, even after some intermediate LVs have
been removed. The names of such historical LVs acquire a hyphen as
a prefix (e.g. '-lvol1') and cannot be reactivated. Use lvremove
a second time, with the hyphen, to remove the record of the former
LV completely.USAGE top
**lvremove** _VG_|_LV_|_Tag_|_Select_ ...
[ **-A**|**--autobackup y**|**n** ]
[ **-f**|**--force** ]
[ **-S**|**--select** _String_ ]
[ **--nohistory** ]
[ **--noudevsync** ]
[ **--reportformat basic**|**json** ]
[ 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 top
**-A**|**--autobackup y**|**n**
Specifies if metadata should be backed up automatically
after a change. Enabling this is strongly advised! See
[vgcfgbackup(8)](../man8/vgcfgbackup.8.html) for more information.
**--commandprofile** _String_
The command profile to use for command configuration. See
[lvm.conf(5)](../man5/lvm.conf.5.html) for more information about profiles.
**--config** _String_
Config settings for the command. These override [lvm.conf(5)](../man5/lvm.conf.5.html)
settings. The String arg uses the same format as
[lvm.conf(5)](../man5/lvm.conf.5.html), or may use section/field syntax. See
[lvm.conf(5)](../man5/lvm.conf.5.html) for more information 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_
Devices that the command can use. This option can be
repeated or accepts a comma separated list of devices. 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)](../man8/lvmdevices.8.html) command. This overrides the [lvm.conf(5)](../man5/lvm.conf.5.html)
**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. output: record the default command
output. debug: record full command debugging.
**--lockopt** _String_
Used to pass options for special cases to lvmlockd. See
[lvmlockd(8)](../man8/lvmlockd.8.html) 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.
**--nohistory**
Do not record history of LVs being removed. This has no
effect unless the configuration setting
metadata/record_lvs_history is enabled.
**--nolocking**
Disable locking.
**--noudevsync**
Disables udev synchronisation. The process will not wait
for notification from udev. It will continue irrespective
of any possible 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
--verbose. Repeat once to also suppress any prompts with
answer 'no'.
**--reportformat basic**|**json**
Overrides current output format for reports which is
defined globally by the report/output_format setting in
[lvm.conf(5)](../man5/lvm.conf.5.html). **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. See
[lvmreport(7)](../man7/lvmreport.7.html) 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)](../man7/lvmreport.7.html). For reporting commands,
one row is displayed for each object matching the criteria.
See **--options help** for selectable object fields. Rows can
be displayed with an additional "selected" field (-o
selected) showing 1 if the row matches the selection and 0
otherwise. For non-reporting commands 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 unusual 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
detail 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 top
_VG_ Volume Group name. See [lvm(8)](../man8/lvm.8.html) for valid names.
_LV_ Logical Volume name. See [lvm(8)](../man8/lvm.8.html) for valid names. An LV
positional arg generally includes the VG name and LV name,
e.g. VG/LV.
_Tag_ Tag name. See [lvm(8)](../man8/lvm.8.html) 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
content.
_Size_[UNIT]
Size is an input number that accepts an optional unit.
Input units are always treated as base two values,
regardless of capitalization, e.g. 'k' and 'K' both refer
to 1024. The default input unit is specified by letter,
followed by |UNIT. UNIT represents 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 top
See [lvm(8)](../man8/lvm.8.html) for information about environment variables used by
lvm. For example, LVM_VG_NAME can generally be substituted for a
required VG parameter.EXAMPLES top
Remove an active LV without asking for confirmation.
**lvremove -f vg00/lvol1**
Remove all LVs the specified VG.
**lvremove vg00**SEE ALSO top
[lvm(8)](../man8/lvm.8.html), [lvm.conf(5)](../man5/lvm.conf.5.html), [lvmconfig(8)](../man8/lvmconfig.8.html), [lvmdevices(8)](../man8/lvmdevices.8.html),
[pvchange(8)](../man8/pvchange.8.html), [pvck(8)](../man8/pvck.8.html), [pvcreate(8)](../man8/pvcreate.8.html), [pvdisplay(8)](../man8/pvdisplay.8.html), [pvmove(8)](../man8/pvmove.8.html),
[pvremove(8)](../man8/pvremove.8.html), [pvresize(8)](../man8/pvresize.8.html), [pvs(8)](../man8/pvs.8.html), [pvscan(8)](../man8/pvscan.8.html),
[vgcfgbackup(8)](../man8/vgcfgbackup.8.html), [vgcfgrestore(8)](../man8/vgcfgrestore.8.html), [vgchange(8)](../man8/vgchange.8.html), [vgck(8)](../man8/vgck.8.html),
[vgcreate(8)](../man8/vgcreate.8.html), [vgconvert(8)](../man8/vgconvert.8.html), [vgdisplay(8)](../man8/vgdisplay.8.html), [vgexport(8)](../man8/vgexport.8.html), [vgextend(8)](../man8/vgextend.8.html),
[vgimport(8)](../man8/vgimport.8.html), [vgimportclone(8)](../man8/vgimportclone.8.html), [vgimportdevices(8)](../man8/vgimportdevices.8.html), [vgmerge(8)](../man8/vgmerge.8.html),
[vgmknodes(8)](../man8/vgmknodes.8.html), [vgreduce(8)](../man8/vgreduce.8.html), [vgremove(8)](../man8/vgremove.8.html), [vgrename(8)](../man8/vgrename.8.html), [vgs(8)](../man8/vgs.8.html),
[vgscan(8)](../man8/vgscan.8.html), [vgsplit(8)](../man8/vgsplit.8.html),
[lvcreate(8)](../man8/lvcreate.8.html), [lvchange(8)](../man8/lvchange.8.html), [lvconvert(8)](../man8/lvconvert.8.html), [lvdisplay(8)](../man8/lvdisplay.8.html), [lvextend(8)](../man8/lvextend.8.html),
[lvreduce(8)](../man8/lvreduce.8.html), [lvremove(8)](../man8/lvremove.8.html), [lvrename(8)](../man8/lvrename.8.html), [lvresize(8)](../man8/lvresize.8.html), [lvs(8)](../man8/lvs.8.html),
[lvscan(8)](../man8/lvscan.8.html),
[lvm-fullreport(8)](../man8/lvm-fullreport.8.html), [lvm-lvpoll(8)](../man8/lvm-lvpoll.8.html), [blkdeactivate(8)](../man8/blkdeactivate.8.html), [lvmdump(8)](../man8/lvmdump.8.html),
[dmeventd(8)](../man8/dmeventd.8.html), [lvmpolld(8)](../man8/lvmpolld.8.html), [lvmlockd(8)](../man8/lvmlockd.8.html), [lvmlockctl(8)](../man8/lvmlockctl.8.html), [cmirrord(8)](../man8/cmirrord.8.html),
[lvmdbusd(8)](../man8/lvmdbusd.8.html), [fsadm(8)](../man8/fsadm.8.html),
[lvmsystemid(7)](../man7/lvmsystemid.7.html), [lvmreport(7)](../man7/lvmreport.7.html), [lvmcache(7)](../man7/lvmcache.7.html), [lvmraid(7)](../man7/lvmraid.7.html), [lvmthin(7)](../man7/lvmthin.7.html),
[lvmvdo(7)](../man7/lvmvdo.7.html), [lvmautoactivation(7)](../man7/lvmautoactivation.7.html)COLOPHON top
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