Deleting a luks partition

[jscarville]

On one of my workstations I have an small encrypted partition than I no longer need. It was encrypted using luks so can I just do an lvdelete or is there something else I need to do first? It is backed up so I do not need to decrypt it; just return the space to the volume group.

[TrevorH]

Assuming it is the LV itself that is encrypted - i.e. to unlock it you do cryptsetup luksOpen /dev/vgname/lvname mappername then you just need to make sure that it is closed with cryptsetup luksClose then lvremove the LV. That will return the LV to the free space in the LV. Depending on how sensitive the contents are, you might want to overwrite the contents first perhaps, maybe using dd.