Vgremove

vgremove VG_TO_DELETE
Do you really want to remove volume group "VG_TO_DELETE" containing 1 logical volumes? [y/n]: y
  Logical volume "LV_TO_DELETE" successfully removed
  Volume group "VG_TO_DELETE" successfully removed

vgremove VG_TO_DELETE
Do you really want to remove volume group "VG_TO_DELETE" containing 1 logical volumes? [y/n]: y
Do you really want to remove and DISCARD active logical volume VG_TO_DELETE/LV_TO_DELETE? [y/n]:
  Logical volume "LV_TO_DELETE" successfully removed
  Volume group "VG_TO_DELETE" successfully removed

vgremove with errors:

vgremove VG_TO_DELETE
Do you really want to remove volume group "VG_TO_DELETE" containing 1 logical volumes? [y/n]: y
Do you really want to remove and DISCARD active logical volume VG_TO_DELETE/LV_TO_DELETE? [y/n]:
  Incorrect metadata area header checksum on /dev/mapper/3600a09803831417a5a244f5665797a48 at offset 4096
  WARNING: Failed to write an MDA of VG VG_TO_DELETE.
  Incorrect metadata area header checksum on /dev/mapper/3600a09803831417a5a244f5665797a49 at offset 4096
  WARNING: Failed to write an MDA of VG VG_TO_DELETE.
  Failed to write VG VG_TO_DELETE.
  Incorrect metadata area header checksum on /dev/mapper/3600a09803831417a5a244f5665797a49 at offset 4096
  Incorrect metadata area header checksum on /dev/mapper/3600a09803831417a5a244f5665797a48 at offset 4096

vgremove VG_TO_DELETE
Do you really want to remove volume group "VG_TO_DELETE" containing 1 logical volumes? [y/n]: y
Do you really want to remove and DISCARD active logical volume VG_TO_DELETE/LV_TO_DELETE? [y/n]:
  WARNING: Failed to write an MDA of VG VG_TO_DELETE.
  Failed to write VG VG_TO_DELETE.

Related commands: rescan-scsi-bus.sh vgremove lvremove pvremove

See also

• LVM: LVM errors LVM scan commands lkvmetad, Add a new disk

scan: pvscan vgscan

LVM: lvs lvmscan lvm fullreport lvmreport lvmconfig lvmdump lvmcheck lvm dumpconfig

Scan: pvs vgs lvs pvscan vgscan

PV: pvcreate pvremove pvscan pvremove pvscan pvs pvchange pvck pvdisplay pvresize

LV: lvdisplay lvcreate lvremove, lvresize, lvextend, lvreduce, lvrename

VG: vgdisplay,vgcreate,vgremove, vgextend, vgreduce, vgscan, vgchange, vgrename, vgcfgbackup, vgcfgrestore, vgimportclone, vgck

Check commands: pvck vgck

• Fibre Channel: HBA, multipath-tools, multipath, multipath -ll, /etc/multipath.conf multipathd rescan-scsi-bus.sh powermt Device mapper dmsetup ls,