How to delete VG with Visual LVM - Manage LVM with Visual LVM, from 0 to ∞ (6)
Section 3 : The Volume Group operations
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The Volume Group is gather of Physical Volume & Logical Volume. It organizes Physical Volume(s) and Logical Volume(s) for using. The Physical Volume is its body to store data actually, and the Logical Volume is its organization to describe the feature of storage instance belongs to Logical Volume, such as format and position/size.
The system detects LVM system by Volume Group.
Section 3.2 Delete Volume Group
To delete Volume Group, you need to select a Volume Group without Logical Volume, it means that you need to delete all Logical Volumes in it first and select VG Operation -> Delete in navgating bar to start deleting wizard, of course you can select Volume Group after wizard started.
Select VG Operation->Delete to start deleting Volume Group wizard
Selecting desired Volume Group -- No multiple selecting here.
You can only select Volume Group without Logical Volume, the other component, normal partition/orphan Physical Volume/Volume Group with Logical Volume, can not be selected.
Delete Volume Group wizard
When Volume Group selected, press Done button on deleting Volume Group wizard to perform operation.
After operation finished, Visual LVM shows follow dialog to inform user that Volume Group has been deleted.
Volume Group deleted