man vgremove () - remove a volume group
NAME
vgremove - remove a volume group
SYNOPSIS
vgremove [-d|--debug] [-h|--help] [-v|--verbose] VolumeGroupName [VolumeGroupName...]
DESCRIPTION
vgremove allows you to remove one or more volume groups. The volume group(s) must not have any logical volumes allocated and must also be inactive (see vgchange(8) ).
OPTIONS
- -d, --debug
- Enables additional debugging output (if compiled with DEBUG).
- -h, --help
- Print a usage message on standard output and exit successfully.
- -v, --verbose
- Gives verbose runtime information about vgremove's activities.
DIAGNOSTICS
vgremove returns an code code of 0 for success and > 0 for error:
1 no volume group name on command line 2 error setting up freed physical volume 3 error writing freed physical volume(s) to disk(s) 4 error removing volume group from lvmtab 5 can't remove volume group containing logical volumes 6 invalid volume group name 7 volume group is active 8 not all physical volumes are online 9 error accessing volume group 10 error reading volume group data from disk(s)
95 driver/module not in kernel 96 invalid I/O protocol version 97 error locking logical volume manager 98 invalid lvmtab (run vgscan(8)) 99 invalid command line
See also
AUTHOR
Heinz Mauelshagen <Linux-LVM@Sistina.com>