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LVM (Logical Volume Manager) - lvremove command (remove a logical volume)

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The lvremove command can be used to remove an LVM logical volume. Before removing a logical volume, use the mount command to determine if the logical volume is mounted. In this example, the /dev/mapper/var logical volume is mounted to /var.

~]# mount
/dev/mapper/var on /var type xfs (rw,relatime,seclabel,attr2,inode64,noquota)

 

If the logical volume is mounted, use the umount command to unmount the logical volume.

umount /dev/mapper/var

 

Then use the lvremove command to remove the logical volume.

lvremove /dev/vg001/var

 

You will be prompted "are you sure". Enter y to remove the logical volume.

Do you really want to remove active logical volume vg001/var? [y/n]: y

 

Or you can avoid the prompt like this.

echo y | lvremove /dev/mapper/var

 

If the logical volume is successfully removed, something like this should be returned.

Logical volume "var" successfully removed

 




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