-A|--autobackup

Specifies if metadata should be backed up automatically after a change. Enabling this is strongly advised! See vgcfgbackup(8)for more information.

--commandprofile

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

--config

Config settings for the command. These override lvm.conf settings. The String arg uses the same format as lvm.conf, or mayuse section/field syntax. See lvm.conf(5) 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 config‐ured).

--driverloaded

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.

--longhelp

Display long help text.

--nohistory

Do not record history of LVs being removed. This has no effect unless the configuration setting metadata/record_lvs_historyis enabled.

--noudevsync

Disables udev synchronisation. The process will not wait for notification 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 cre‐ates.

--profile

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

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

-S|--select

Select objects for processing and reporting based on specified criteria. The criteria syntax is described by --select helpand lvmreport(7). For reporting commands, one row is displayed for each object matching the criteria. See --options help forselectable object fields. Rows can be displayed with an additional "selected" field (-o selected) showing 1 if the rowmatches the selection and 0 otherwise. For non-reporting commands which process LVM entities, the selection is used to chooseitems to process.

-t|--test

Run in test mode. Commands will not update metadata. This is implemented by disabling all metadata writing but neverthelessreturning success to the calling function. This may lead to unusual error messages in multi-stage operations if a tool relieson 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.)VARIABLESVGVolume Group name. See lvm(8) for valid names.LVLogical Volume name. See lvm(8) for valid names. An LV positional arg generally includes the VG name and LV name, e.g.VG/LV.TagTag name. See lvm(8) for information about tag names and using tags in place of a VG, LV or PV.SelectSelect indicates that a required positional parameter can be omitted if the --select option is used. No arg appears in thisposition.StringSee 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 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: bBsSkKmMgGtTpPeE. b|B is bytes, s|S is sectors of 512 bytes, k|K is kilobytes, m|M ismegabytes, g|G is gigabytes, t|T is terabytes, p|P is petabytes, e|E is exabytes. (This should not be confused with the out‐put control --units, where capital letters mean multiple of 1000.)ENVIRONMENT VARIABLESSee lvm(8) for information about environment variables used by lvm. For example, LVM_VG_NAME can generally be substituted for arequired VG parameter.EXAMPLESRemove an active LV without asking for confirmation.lvremove -f vg00/lvol1Remove all LVs the specified VG.lvremove vg00