If you need to remove a non-root LVM based file system, it can be removed using the following steps. If the file system contains any data, then please make sure to take a backup of that data before proceeding with the following steps.

In this example, we will be deleting "u01lv" from volume group "oracle". The logical volume is mounted on mount point /u01.

# df /u01 | grep u01
/dev/ampper/oracle/u01lv   209612800  80946812  128665988  39%  /u01
# lvs | grep u01
  u01lv oracle -wi-ao---- 200.00g

As you can see, mount point /u01 is define don logical volume u01lv, and is 200 GB.

Start off, by deleting the corresponding entry in /etc/fstab.

# grep u01 /etc/fstab 
/dev/oracle/u01lv    /u01    xfs  defaults,noatime 0 0

Then unmount the file system:

# umount /u01

Disable the logical volume:

# lvchange -an /dev/oracle/u01lv

Delete the logical volume:

# lvremove /dev/oracle/u01lv

At this point, depending if this logical volume is defined on a disk within a volume group, you can, if the disk is now empty after removing the logical volume, also remove the disk from the volume group. First run the "pvs" command and check for an empty disk, such as:

# pvs
  PV         VG       Fmt   Attr  PSize   PFree
  /dev/sdb   oracle   lvm2  a--   <5.00t  <5.00t

If the disk is empty, as seen as disk /dev/sdb in the example above, you can then remove it from the volume group:

# vgreduce oracle /dev/sdb

Or, if the logical volume removed from the volume group was the very last logical volume to remove, and the volume group is empty, you can also remove the volume group. Do so by disabling the volume group and removing it:

# vgchange -an oracle
# vgremove oracle

And then finally remove any physical volumes used, such as /dev/sdb:

# pvremove /dev/sdb

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