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You can use lvremove command to remove a logical volume.

On server, we have volume group with 2 logical volumes.

root@server2:~# lvdisplay
  --- Logical volume ---
  LV Path                /dev/pve/data
  LV Name                data
  VG Name                pve
  LV UUID                nE67m1-2onL-R7AO-48m3-nU8j-pXWd-3QNj5Q
  LV Write Access        read/write
  LV Creation host, time server2.hostonnet.com, 2015-12-12 16:18:13 -0500
  LV Status              available
  # open                 1
  LV Size                93.65 GiB
  Current LE             23975
  Segments               1
  Allocation             inherit
  Read ahead sectors     auto
  - currently set to     256
  Block device           252:0
   
  --- Logical volume ---
  LV Path                /dev/pve/vm
  LV Name                vm
  VG Name                pve
  LV UUID                Wtcyaq-xzvT-TXtj-Iuk2-2dWP-9o0P-Wbb4Zv
  LV Write Access        read/write
  LV Creation host, time server2.hostonnet.com, 2015-12-12 16:18:13 -0500
  LV Status              available
  # open                 1
  LV Size                1.70 TiB
  Current LE             445906
  Segments               1
  Allocation             inherit
  Read ahead sectors     auto
  - currently set to     256
  Block device           252:1
   
root@server2:~#

I want to remove Logical Volume /dev/pve/vm.

To do this, we need to umount the logical volume.

root@server2:~# df
Filesystem            1K-blocks    Used  Available Use% Mounted on
udev                      10240       0      10240   0% /dev
tmpfs                  13173672    9288   13164384   1% /run
/dev/md2               20186312 1708296   17454072   9% /
tmpfs                  32934180   24960   32909220   1% /dev/shm
tmpfs                      5120       0       5120   0% /run/lock
tmpfs                  32934180       0   32934180   0% /sys/fs/cgroup
/dev/mapper/pve-vm   1825539164   32928 1825506236   1% /vm
/dev/mapper/pve-data   97296108   61268   92324760   1% /var/lib/vz
tmpfs                       100       0        100   0% /run/lxcfs/controllers
cgmfs                       100       0        100   0% /run/cgmanager/fs
/dev/fuse                 30720      12      30708   1% /etc/pve
root@server2:~# 

We found, the logical volume /dev/pve/vm mounted as /vm

/dev/mapper/pve-vm 1825539164 32928 1825506236 1% /vm

Lets umount it.

root@server2:~# umount /dev/mapper/pve-vm
root@server2:~# df -h
Filesystem            Size  Used Avail Use% Mounted on
udev                   10M     0   10M   0% /dev
tmpfs                  13G  9.1M   13G   1% /run
/dev/md2               20G  1.7G   17G   9% /
tmpfs                  32G   25M   32G   1% /dev/shm
tmpfs                 5.0M     0  5.0M   0% /run/lock
tmpfs                  32G     0   32G   0% /sys/fs/cgroup
/dev/mapper/pve-data   93G   60M   89G   1% /var/lib/vz
tmpfs                 100K     0  100K   0% /run/lxcfs/controllers
cgmfs                 100K     0  100K   0% /run/cgmanager/fs
/dev/fuse              30M   12K   30M   1% /etc/pve
root@server2:~#

We run df -h after umount to verify the logial volume is unmounted.

Now, we can remove the logical volume with lvremove command.

root@server2:~# lvremove /dev/pve/vm
Do you really want to remove active logical volume vm? [y/n]: y
  Logical volume "vm" successfully removed
root@server2:~# 

Lets verify it is gone by running lvdisplay command.

root@server2:~# lvdisplay
  --- Logical volume ---
  LV Path                /dev/pve/data
  LV Name                data
  VG Name                pve
  LV UUID                nE67m1-2onL-R7AO-48m3-nU8j-pXWd-3QNj5Q
  LV Write Access        read/write
  LV Creation host, time server2.hostonnet.com, 2015-12-12 16:18:13 -0500
  LV Status              available
  # open                 1
  LV Size                93.65 GiB
  Current LE             23975
  Segments               1
  Allocation             inherit
  Read ahead sectors     auto
  - currently set to     256
  Block device           252:0
   
root@server2:~# 

Now we only have one logical volume.

If you check the volume group with vgdisplay, you will see disk space used by the logical volume is FREE now.

   
root@server2:~# vgdisplay
  --- Volume group ---
  VG Name               pve
  System ID             
  Format                lvm2
  Metadata Areas        1
  Metadata Sequence No  4
  VG Access             read/write
  VG Status             resizable
  MAX LV                0
  Cur LV                1
  Open LV               1
  Max PV                0
  Cur PV                1
  Act PV                1
  VG Size               1.80 TiB
  PE Size               4.00 MiB
  Total PE              470906
  Alloc PE / Size       23975 / 93.65 GiB
  Free  PE / Size       446931 / 1.70 TiB
  VG UUID               mGJc2S-HWVj-kj5q-Dau6-h7XZ-X4sR-Afkgod
   
root@server2:~# 

Free PE / Size 446931 / 1.70 TiB

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