HP-UX Reference (11i v1 05/09) - 1M System Administration Commands A-M (vol 3)

lvremove(1M) lvremove(1M)

NAME

lvremove - remove one or more logical volumes from LVM volume group

SYNOPSIS

/usr/sbin/lvremove

[-A autobackup][-f] lv_path ...

Remarks

lvremove cannot be performed if the volume group is activated in shared mode.

DESCRIPTION

The lvremove command removes each logical volume speciﬁed by lv_path ....

Logical volumes must be closed before they can be removed. For example, if the logical volume contains a

ﬁle system, unmount the ﬁle system before removing it.

Options and Arguments

lvremove recognizes the following options and arguments:

lv_path The block device path name of a logical volume.

-A autobackup Set automatic backup for this invocation of this command. autobackup can have

one of the following values:

y Automatically back up conﬁguration changes made to the logical

volume. This is the default.

After this command executes, the vgcfgbackup command (see

vgcfgbackup(1M)) is executed for the volume group to which the logi-

cal volume belongs.

n Do not back up conﬁguration changes this time.

-f Specify that no user conﬁrmation is required.

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 a logical volume without requiring user conﬁrmation:

lvremove -f /dev/vg01/lvol5

WARNINGS

This command destroys all data in the speciﬁed logical volumes.