lxc-destroy - Man Page

destroy a container.

Examples (TL;DR)

Delete a container: sudo lxc-destroy container_name
Display help: lxc-destroy [-?|--help]

tldr.sh

Synopsis

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

Description

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

Options

-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

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 /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, ALERT, CRIT, WARN, ERROR, NOTICE, INFO, DEBUG, TRACE.

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

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.