Actually from the latest release it is on page 40 of the manual.
From the previous post I was assuming that you created a Volume Group but then wanted to delete it. If there is data in the Volume Group then you should see from within the Volume Group the Logical Volumes that you have created within.
Let's say that you have 2 VG's.
VG00
Existing w/ data and has 3.2TB LV
VG01
Then added new LV's or Snapshots
or
VG00 w/ data and has 3.2TB LV
then added another 250GB to the VG00 to increase the size.
If this is the case then you cannot remove it the 250GB from the VG00. You will have to backup you data and delete the whole VG00.
I see. Isn't this a bit odd? Open-E surely uses LVM and LVM does provide the ability to move data from PVs to other extents to be able to remove PVs from the VGs.
Otherwise its like it is now: now, I will have to remove my VG00 altogehter. This is not a real problem for now, since this is my replication target, but I do find this a bit cumbersome. Especially if this happens to you when you have bigger volumes and thus enormous backup/restore times.
When joining the Units together (we span the units) and if data is being written to the Unit it would be very hard to extract with the file system that we use and somehow in our LVM move any data from that unit to the original unit. So currently we do not have this feature available and most likely won't any time soon, this function has been like this from early days of our products.
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