Linux "vgremove" Command Line Options and Examples
Remove volume group

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 --removemissing to make the VG metadata consistent again.


Usage:

vgremove position_args
      [ option_args ]






Command Line Options:

--commandprofile
The command profile to use for command configuration. See lvm.conf(5) for more information about pro‐files.
vgremove --commandprofile ...
--config
Config settings for the command. These override lvm.conf settings. The String arg uses the same formatas lvm.conf, or may use section/field syntax. See lvm.conf(5) for more information about config.
vgremove --config ...
-d|--debug
Set debug level. Repeat from 1 to 6 times to increase the detail of messages sent to the log fileand/or syslog (if configured).
vgremove -d|--debug ...
--driverloaded
If set to no, the command will not attempt to use device-mapper. For testing and debugging.
vgremove --driverloaded ...
-f|--force
Override various checks, confirmations and protections. Use with extreme caution.
vgremove -f|--force ...
-h|--help
Display help text.
vgremove -h|--help ...
--longhelp
Display long help text.
vgremove --longhelp ...
--noudevsync
Disables udev synchronisation. The process will not wait for notification from udev. It will continueirrespective of any possible udev processing in the background. Only use this if udev is not running orhas rules that ignore the devices LVM creates.
vgremove --noudevsync ...
--profile
An alias for --commandprofile or --metadataprofile, depending on the command.
vgremove --profile ...
-q|--quiet
Suppress output and log messages. Overrides --debug and --verbose. Repeat once to also suppress anyprompts with answer 'no'.
vgremove -q|--quiet ...
--reportformat
Overrides current output format for reports which is defined globally by the report/output_format set‐ting in lvm.conf. basic is the original format with columns and rows. If there is more than onereport per command, each report is prefixed with the report name for identification. json producesreport output in JSON format. See lvmreport(7) for more information.
vgremove --reportformat ...
-S|--select
Select objects for processing and reporting based on specified criteria. The criteria syntax isdescribed by --select help and lvmreport(7). For reporting commands, one row is displayed for eachobject matching the criteria. See --options help for selectable object fields. Rows can be displayedwith an additional "selected" field (-o selected) showing 1 if the row matches the selection and 0 oth‐erwise. For non-reporting commands which process LVM entities, the selection is used to choose itemsto process.
vgremove -S|--select ...
-t|--test
Run in test mode. Commands will not update metadata. This is implemented by disabling all metadatawriting but nevertheless returning success to the calling function. This may lead to unusual error mes‐sages in multi-stage operations if a tool relies on reading back metadata it believes has changed buthasn't.
vgremove -t|--test ...
-v|--verbose
Set verbose level. Repeat from 1 to 4 times to increase the detail of messages sent to stdout andstderr.
vgremove -v|--verbose ...
--version
Display version information.
vgremove --version ...
-y|--yes
Do not prompt for confirmation interactively but always assume the answer yes. Use with extreme cau‐tion. (For automatic no, see -qq.)VARIABLESVGVolume Group name. See lvm(8) for valid names.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 this position.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 val‐ues, regardless of capitalization, e.g. 'k' and 'K' both refer to 1024. The default input unit isspecified by letter, followed by |UNIT. UNIT represents other possible input units: bBsSkKmMgGtTpPeE.b|B is bytes, s|S is sectors of 512 bytes, k|K is kilobytes, m|M is megabytes, g|G is gigabytes, t|T isterabytes, p|P is petabytes, e|E is exabytes. (This should not be confused with the output control
vgremove -y|--yes ...
--units,
ENVIRONMENT VARIABLESSee lvm(8) for information about environment variables used by lvm. For example, LVM_VG_NAME can generally besubstituted for a required VG parameter.
vgremove --units, ...