8.12. The Logical Volume Management Module

Webmin's Logical Volume Manager module allows you to perform almost all of the tasks that can be done using the command-line LVM tools. When you enter the module from the Hardware category, the main page shows all existing volume groups and their physical and logical volumes, as shown in Figure 8.6.

Figure 8.6. The Logical Volume Management module.

Because the module depends upon the LVM tools such as vgcreate, the main page will display an error message if they are not found. They should, however, be available on your distribution CD or website if you are running a reasonably recent version of Linux. ...

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