09-15-2009
If you've got the root filesystem on a LVM logical volume, and have space left in the volume group, you can do a snapshot, and restore to that if you don't like the update.
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vgremove
VGREMOVE(8) System Manager's Manual VGREMOVE(8)
NAME
vgremove - remove a volume group
SYNOPSIS
vgremove [-d|--debug] [-h|--help] [-v|--verbose] VolumeGroupName [VolumeGroupName...]
DESCRIPTION
vgremove allows you to remove one or more volume groups. The volume group(s) must not have any logical volumes allocated and must also be
inactive (see vgchange(8) ).
OPTIONS
-d, --debug
Enables additional debugging output (if compiled with DEBUG).
-h, --help
Print a usage message on standard output and exit successfully.
-v, --verbose
Gives verbose runtime information about vgremove's activities.
DIAGNOSTICS
vgremove returns an code code of 0 for success and > 0 for error:
1 no volume group name on command line
2 error setting up freed physical volume
3 error writing freed physical volume(s) to disk(s)
4 error removing volume group from lvmtab
5 can't remove volume group containing logical volumes
6 invalid volume group name
7 volume group is active
8 not all physical volumes are online
9 error accessing volume group
10 error reading volume group data from disk(s)
95 driver/module not in kernel
96 invalid I/O protocol version
97 error locking logical volume manager
98 invalid lvmtab (run vgscan(8))
99 invalid command line
See also
lvm(8), vgcreate(8), vgreduce(8)
AUTHOR
Heinz Mauelshagen <Linux-LVM@Sistina.com>
Heinz Mauelshagen LVM TOOLS VGREMOVE(8)