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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 ]
           [ 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
              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) 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.
       --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  --ver-
              bose.   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).
              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) 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
              selectable  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
              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
       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), lvm2-activation-generator(8),
       blkdeactivate(8), lvmdump(8),
       dmeventd(8), lvmpolld(8), lvmlockd(8), lvmlockctl(8), cmirrord(8),
       lvmdbusd(8), fsadm(8),
       lvmsystemid(7), lvmreport(7), lvmraid(7), lvmthin(7), lvmcache(7)
Red Hat, Inc.       LVM TOOLS 2.03.14(2)-RHEL8 (2021-10-20)        VGREMOVE(8)