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If the physical volume is used by a volume group, the association must be deleted with [[vgreduce]], or --force should be used.
If the physical volume is used by a volume group, the volume group must be removed first with [[vgremove]].
 
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pvremove /dev/sdb1
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Latest revision as of 17:48, 23 May 2017

Internal

Overview

Removes a physical volume by removing all LVM labels.

The association between volume groups and physical volumes can be obtained with with pvs or pvscan.

pvremove <physical-volume-path>

If the physical volume is used by a volume group, the volume group must be removed first with vgremove.