NAME
vgremove — remove LVM volume group definition from the system
SYNOPSIS
/usr/sbin/vgremove
vg_name ...
DESCRIPTION
The
vgremove
command removes from the system the last physical volume of the volume group
and the definition of the volume group or groups specified by
vg_name
....
Since all system knowledge of the volume group and its contents are removed,
the volume group can no longer be accessed.
To move a volume group from one system to another,
use the
vgexport
command instead (see
vgexport(1M)).
Before executing
vgremove,
remove all logical volumes residing on the last physical volume
by executing
lvremove
(see
lvremove(1M)).
vgremove
is equivalent to the inverse of executing
vgcreate
for one physical volume (see
vgcreate(1M)).
Before removing a volume group, two steps are necessary:
- 1.
Remove all the logical volumes belonging to the group by using the
lvremove
command (see
lvremove(1M)).
- 2.
Remove all but one physical volume belonging to the volume group by using the
vgreduce
command (see
vgreduce(1M)).
If there is any physical volume group created under
vg_name
...,
the physical volume group information is also removed from file
/etc/lvmpvg.
Arguments
vgremove
recognizes the following argument:
- vg_name
The path name of a volume group.
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 volume group
/dev/vg02
from the system:
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