Pvremove

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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 <partition-on-which-physical-volume-resides>

If the physical volume is used by a volume group, the association must be deleted with vgreduce, or --force should be used.

Example:

pvremove /dev/sdb1