Remove Volume Group

When a logical volume is no longer in use, Cockpit administrators can use the Storage page in the web console to remove an unused volume group.

What Do You Need?

• The Cockpit web console must be installed and accessible.

  For details, see these topics: Install and Enable Cockpit and Log in to the Cockpit Web Console.

• The cockpit-storaged package must be installed.

  Note:

  If the cockpit-storaged package isn't installed, see this section Install and Manage Add-on Applications.
• Unused volume group without existing logical volumes. For information on how to remove a logical volume, see Remove Volume Group.
• Administrator privileges.

Steps

Using the Cockpit web console, follow these steps to remove an unused volume group.

1. In the Storage page, find the table for Devices and then select the volume group you want to remove.

   The LVM2 group [name] page appears.

2. In top section of the LVM2 group [name] page, click Delete.

   The Delete Volume Group dialog appears.

   Note:

   LVM prevents you from deleting the volume group if the volume group is in use or if it contains logical volumes.
3. In the Delete Volume Group dialog, click Delete.

   LVM removes the unused volume group.