LVM (Logical Volume Manager) - lvremove command (remove a logical volume)
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Jeremy Canfield |
Updated: September 20 2021
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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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