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vgremove(1M) vgremove(1M)

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 com-

mand (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:

vgremove /dev/vg02