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NAME | SYNOPSIS | DESCRIPTION | OPTIONS | COMMON OPTIONS | DIAGNOSTIC | SEE ALSO | 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-de‐
              stroy will be aborted.

       -s, --snapshots
              destroy the specified container including all its snap‐
              shots.

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
              /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 ER‐
              ROR. 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 virtualiza‐
              tion 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 previ‐
              ously 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 de‐
              stroyed.You can use the lxc-ls command to list the avail‐
              able 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)

COLOPHON         top

       This page is part of the lxc (Linux containers) project.  Informa‐
       tion about the project can be found at 
       âŸĻhttp://linuxcontainers.org/âŸĐ.  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
       âŸĻhttps://github.com/lxc/lxc.gitâŸĐ on 2026-05-24.  (At that time,
       the date of the most recent commit that was found in the
       repository was 2026-05-21.)  If you discover any rendering
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                                2026-04-29                 lxc-destroy(1)

Pages that refer to this page: lxc-attach(1),  lxc-autostart(1),  lxc-cgroup(1),  lxc-checkconfig(1),  lxc-checkpoint(1),  lxc-config(1),  lxc-console(1),  lxc-copy(1),  lxc-create(1),  lxc-destroy(1),  lxc-device(1),  lxc-execute(1),  lxc-freeze(1),  lxc-info(1),  lxc-ls(1),  lxc-monitor(1),  lxc-snapshot(1),  lxc-start(1),  lxc-stop(1),  lxc-top(1),  lxc-unfreeze(1),  lxc-unshare(1),  lxc-update-config(1),  lxc-usernsexec(1),  lxc-wait(1),  lxc.container.conf(5),  lxc.system.conf(5),  lxc(7)

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