LVM: Remove an existing Volume Group
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LVM: Remove an existing Volume Group
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# Tested on RHEL 5, 6 & 7
VG=testvg vgdisplay -v $VG Using volume group(s) on command line. --- Volume group --- VG Name testvg System ID Format lvm2 Metadata Areas 1 Metadata Sequence No 60 VG Access read/write VG Status resizable MAX LV 0 Cur LV 1 Open LV 1 Max PV 0 Cur PV 1 Act PV 1 VG Size 508.00 MiB PE Size 4.00 MiB Total PE 127 Alloc PE / Size 64 / 256.00 MiB Free PE / Size 63 / 252.00 MiB VG UUID MgAY7y-AVfr-FOFP-5RVO-jHA8-Obel-UK2M9k --- Logical volume --- LV Path /dev/testvg/testlv LV Name testlv VG Name testvg LV UUID uwa2U4-C2J4-pjPK-CYT4-jvMO-qgj7-gabWBN LV Write Access read/write LV Creation host, time ciento3.localdomain, 2016-02-25 14:19:41 +0100 LV Status available # open 1 LV Size 256.00 MiB Current LE 64 Segments 1 Allocation inherit Read ahead sectors auto - currently set to 8192 Block device 253:8 --- Physical volumes --- PV Name /dev/sde1 PV UUID jgt69o-8OoG-3WNo-9ens-GBD2-vrqu-yRHDUB PV Status allocatable Total PE / Free PE 127 / 63 # Before removing Volume Group remember that data (if any) won't be recoverable. Take into # account any filesystem/logical volume belonging to volume group. Such is my case; I will # destroy volume group and all related objects Do you really want to remove volume group "testvg" containing 1 logical volumes? [y/n]: y Can't remove open logical volume "testlv" df -h [...] /dev/mapper/testvg-testlv 248M 11M 226M 5% /testmntpt umount /testmntpt rmdir /testmntpt vgremove $VG Do you really want to remove volume group "testvg" containing 1 logical volumes? [y/n]: y Do you really want to remove active logical volume testlv? [y/n]: y Logical volume "testlv" successfully removed Volume group "testvg" successfully removed |
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