NAME | SYNOPSIS | DESCRIPTION | OPTIONS | COMMON OPTIONS | DIAGNOSTIC | SEE ALSO | AUTHOR | COLOPHON

LXC-DESTROY(1)                                                LXC-DESTROY(1)

NAME         top

       lxc-destroy - destroy a container.

SYNOPSIS         top

       lxc-destroy -n name [ -f ]  [ -s ]

DESCRIPTION         top

       lxc-destroy destroys the system object previously created by the lxc-
       create command.

OPTIONS         top

       -f, --force
              If a container is running, stop it first. If this option is
              not specified and the container is running, then lxc-destroy
              will be aborted.
       -s, --snapshots
              destroy the specified container including all its snapshots.

COMMON OPTIONS         top

       These options are common to most of lxc commands.
       -?, -h, --help
              Print a longer usage message than normal.
       --usage
              Give the usage message
       -q, --quiet
              mute on
       -P, --lxcpath=PATH
              Use an alternate container path. The default is
              /usr/local/var/lib/lxc.
       -o, --logfile=FILE
              Output to an alternate log FILE. The default is no log.
       -l, --logpriority=LEVEL
              Set log priority to LEVEL. The default log priority is ERROR.
              Possible values are : FATAL, CRIT, WARN, ERROR, NOTICE, INFO,
              DEBUG.
              Note that this option is setting the priority of the events
              log in the alternate log file. It do not have effect on the
              ERROR events log on stderr.
       -n, --name=NAME
              Use container identifier NAME.  The container identifier
              format is an alphanumeric string.
       --rcfile=FILE
              Specify the configuration file to configure the virtualization
              and isolation functionalities for the container.
              This configuration file if present will be used even if there
              is already a configuration file present in the previously
              created container (via lxc-create).
       --version
              Show the version number.

DIAGNOSTIC         top

       The container was not found
              The specified container for destruction was not found. It is
              probable it does not exists and was already destroyed.You can
              use the lxc-ls command to list the available containers on the
              system.

SEE ALSO         top

       lxc(7), lxc-create(1), lxc-copy(1), lxc-destroy(1), lxc-start(1),
       lxc-stop(1), lxc-execute(1), lxc-console(1), lxc-monitor(1),
       lxc-wait(1), lxc-cgroup(1), lxc-ls(1), lxc-info(1), lxc-freeze(1),
       lxc-unfreeze(1), lxc-attach(1), lxc.conf(5)

AUTHOR         top

       Daniel Lezcano <daniel.lezcano@free.fr>

COLOPHON         top

       This page is part of the lxc (Linux containers) project.  Information
       about the project can be found at ⟨http://linuxcontainers.org/⟩.  If
       you have a bug report for this manual page, send it to
       lxc-devel@lists.linuxcontainers.org.  This page was obtained from the
       project's upstream Git repository ⟨git://github.com/lxc/lxc⟩ on
       2017-07-05.  If you discover any rendering problems in this HTML ver‐
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       information in this COLOPHON (which is not part of the original man‐
       ual page), send a mail to man-pages@man7.org
                                 2017-07-05                   LXC-DESTROY(1)

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