Lvremove

Internal

• Logical Volume Operations

Overview

Gather statistics on the free space before removing, and also on the size of the logical volume to be removed:

vgs

lvs   

Unmount the volume if necessary (or shutdown the service that is using it, as it is the case with Docker):

umount /dev/VolGroup00/MyLV1

Remove the logical volume with lvremove.

The command has a "dry run mode" (-t):

lvremove /dev/<VG_name>/<LV_name>

lvremove -t /dev/<VG_name>/<LV_name>

Example:

[root@rhel-test lvm]# lvremove -t /dev/rhel_rhel-test/docker-pool 
  TEST MODE: Metadata will NOT be updated and volumes will not be (de)activated.
Do you really want to remove active logical volume docker-pool? [y/n]: y
  Logical volume "docker-pool" successfully removed

This command actually removes it:

lvremove [-v] /dev/VolGroup00/MyLV1