How to Delete or Remove LVM volumes
Things that needs to be taken care of before proceeding with removal:
- Make sure its a non-root partition
- Please take a backup of the data before proceeding
- Make sure the volume is unmounted
Step 1: Delete entry from /etc/fstab
# cat /etc/fstab
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/dev/CVOL/workspace /data ext4 defaults 0 0
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Step 2: unmount the partition
# umount /data
Step 3: Disable LVM
# lvchange -an /dev/CVOL/workspace
Step 4: Delete LVM volume
# lvremove /dev/CVOL/workspace Do you really want to remove and DISCARD logical volume CVOL/workspace? [y/n]: y Logical volume "workspace" successfully removed
Step 5: Disable volume group
# vgremove CVOLVolume group "CVOL" successfully removed
Step 6: Delete physical volumes used for volume group “vg”
# pvremove /dev/sdbLabels on physical volume "/dev/sdb" successfully wiped.
That’s all!