Removing an existing LVM volume
The flexibility of LVM allows us to allocate the pooled storage of physical volumes however we see fit. This recipe shows us how to delete a logical volume and free its storage back to the volume group for use by other logical volumes.
Getting ready
This recipe requires a CentOS system with administrative privileges provided by logging in with the root
account or using sudo
. It assumes that a logical volume has been created as described in the preceding recipe.
How to do it...
Perform the following steps to remove an LVM volume:
- Unmount the filesystem with
umount
:umount /mnt
- Open
/etc/fstab
and verify that there isn't an entry to automatically mount the filesystem. If there is, remove the entry, save your changes, ...
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