NAME
pvremove — remove LVM data structure from a physical volume
DESCRIPTION
The
pvremove
command clears the LVM data structure on a disk,
so that it is no longer an LVM physical volume.
The device may then be used by the file system or by
other Volume Manager.
The operation is denied if
pv_path
is assigned to a volume group. The
pvremove
command only clears the LVM data structure on a disk
if the disk does not belong to a volume group.
This avoids accidentally removing a valid physical
volume under a volume group. If the physical volume
to be removed belongs to a volume group, use the
vgremove
command to first remove the volume group associated
with the physical volume.
Arguments
pvremove
recognizes the following arguments:
- pv_path
The character (raw) device path name of a physical volume.
EXTERNAL INFLUENCES
Environment Variables
LANG
determines the language in which messages are displayed.
If
LANG
is not specified or is null, it defaults to "C" (see
lang(5)).
If any internationalization variable contains an invalid setting, all
internationalization variables default to "C" (see
environ(5)).
EXAMPLES
Remove LVM data structure on the physical volume
/dev/rdsk/c1t0d0:
pvremove /dev/rdsk/c1t0d0
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