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.TH LCTL-LLOG-REMOVE 8 2026-09-05 Lustre "Lustre Configuration Utilities"
.SH NAME
lctl-llog-remove, lctl-llog_remove \- remove a log and erase it from disk
.SH SYNOPSIS
.SY "lctl llog remove"
.RB [ --log_id
.IR ID ]
.RI { LOGNAME | FID }
.SY "lctl llog_remove"
.RB [ --log_id
.IR ID ]
.RI { LOGNAME | FID }
.YS
.SH DESCRIPTION
.B lctl llog remove
removes the log named by
.I LOGNAME
or by its
.IR FID ,
typically on the MGS. A plain log is destroyed whole and
.B --log_id
is ignored. For a catalog,
.B --log_id
names one plain log inside it to remove, and without it every log in the
catalog is removed.
See
.BR lctl-llog-catlist (8)
for a list of configuration logs.
.SH OPTIONS
.TP
.BI --log_id " ID"
The log
.I ID
of a plain log inside a catalog, in the bracketed FID form
.B [SEQ:OID:VER]
that
.BR lctl-llog-print (8)
reports for that catalog.
It is ignored when
.I LOGNAME
names a plain log.
.SH EXAMPLES
To remove the
.B testfs-client
configuration log from the MGS:
.RS
.EX
.B # lctl llog remove testfs-client
.EE
.RE
.SH AVAILABILITY
.B lctl llog remove
is a subcommand of
.BR lctl (8)
and is distributed as part of the
.BR lustre (7)
filesystem package since release 2.18.0
.\" Added in commit v2_17_53-90-g6681a33af5
.\" The llog_cmdlist[] entry was added by v2_16_53-8-gfe4b49635d, but it
.\" dispatched to jt_llog_check() until the commit above.
.PP
The
.B lctl llog_remove
spelling has been available since release 0.6.0
.\" Added in commit 0.0.0-2194-g040033cef2
.SH SEE ALSO
.BR lctl (8),
.BR lctl-llog-cancel (8),
.BR lctl-llog-catlist (8),
.BR lctl-llog-info (8),
.BR lctl-llog-print (8)
