summaryrefslogtreecommitdiff
path: root/man/vgreduce.8.in
diff options
context:
space:
mode:
Diffstat (limited to 'man/vgreduce.8.in')
-rw-r--r--man/vgreduce.8.in26
1 files changed, 16 insertions, 10 deletions
diff --git a/man/vgreduce.8.in b/man/vgreduce.8.in
index f4f5d83..734f01e 100644
--- a/man/vgreduce.8.in
+++ b/man/vgreduce.8.in
@@ -3,28 +3,34 @@
vgreduce \- reduce a volume group
.SH SYNOPSIS
.B vgreduce
-[\-a|\-\-all] [\-A|\-\-autobackup y|n] [\-d|\-\-debug] [\-h|\-?|\-\-help]
-[\-\-removemissing]
-[\-t|\-\-test]
-[\-v|\-\-verbose] VolumeGroupName
-[PhysicalVolumePath...]
+.RB [ \-a | \-\-all ]
+.RB [ \-A | \-\-autobackup
+.RI { y | n }]
+.RB [ \-d | \-\-debug ]
+.RB [ \-h | \-? | \-\-help ]
+.RB [ \-\-removemissing ]
+.RB [ \-t | \-\-test ]
+.RB [ \-v | \-\-verbose ]
+.I VolumeGroupName
+.RI [ PhysicalVolumePath ...]
.SH DESCRIPTION
vgreduce allows you to remove one or more unused physical volumes
from a volume group.
.SH OPTIONS
-See \fBlvm\fP for common options.
+See \fBlvm\fP(8) for common options.
.TP
-.I \-a, \-\-all
+.BR \-a ", " \-\-all
Removes all empty physical volumes if none are given on command line.
.TP
-.I \-\-removemissing
+.B \-\-removemissing
Removes all missing physical volumes from the volume group, if there are no
logical volumes allocated on those. This resumes normal operation of the volume
group (new logical volumes may again be created, changed and so on).
If this is not possible (there are logical volumes referencing the missing
physical volumes) and you cannot or do not want to remove them manually, you
-can run this option with --force to have vgreduce remove any partial LVs.
+can run this option with \fB--force\fP to have \fBvgreduce\fP
+remove any partial LVs.
Any logical volumes and dependent snapshots that were partly on the
missing disks get removed completely. This includes those parts
@@ -32,7 +38,7 @@ that lie on disks that are still present.
If your logical volumes spanned several disks including the ones that are
lost, you might want to try to salvage data first by activating your
-logical volumes with --partial as described in \fBlvm (8)\fP.
+logical volumes with \fB--partial\fP as described in \fBlvm\fP(8).
.SH SEE ALSO
.BR lvm (8),