A tool to administrate LVM.

Hello all,

I am a developer working for MIRACLE LINUX which is one of the linux distributors in Japan.

I made a tool to administrate LVM easily and named it LVMAdmin temporarily. It will help beginners to create PV/VG/LV easily.

Small screenshot is put at:
http://www.miraclelinux.com/developer/lvmadmin.html
# Though it is Japanese page...

Please evaluate it if you are interested.

[Implementation]

Currently, LVMAdmin has the following features:

- create a partition.
- create a physical volume.
- create a volume group.
- create a logical volume.
- display disk/partition/PV/VG/LV information.

# The extending logical volume, snapshot, etc. are not implemented yet.

[System Requirements]

LVMAdmin is a Tcl/Tk script so it requires Tcl/Tk 8.0 or highter and, ofcourse, the system environment that the LVM can work comfortably.

[Download]

You can download the RPM from:
ftp://ftp.miraclelinux.com/pub/Miracle/ia32/standard/2.1/unsupported/RPMS/lvmadmin-0.2.0-3ml.i686.rpm

And SRPM from:

ftp://ftp.miraclelinux.com/pub/Miracle/ia32/standard/2.1/unsupported/SRPMS/lvmadmin-0.2.0-3ml.src.rpm

The binary package I prepared was built on Miracle Linux V2.1. Miracle Linux V2.1 is based on Red Hat Linux 7.1 and we applied some kernel patches including LVM kernel module to the kernel. Unfortunately, our products have not been shipped outside Japan so I think you need to rebuild LVMAdmin from SRPM.

[How to use]

On root account, type the following on xterm or some X terminal program:

 # lvma
A window will be appeared on your display.

You can read the manual written in English at:
/usr/share/doc/lvmadmin-0.2.0/lvmadmin-doc-e.html

# Since I'm not a native English speaker, I belive there are some

# incorrect English in the manual. I'll much appreciate if you correct
# my English and report it to me.

[NOTE]
- I have tested LVMAdmin with kernel-2.4.9 and lvm-1.0.1.

- LVMAdmin outputs trace log to '/var/tmp/lvma.log' when you invoke it with 'debug' option as follows:

	# lvma debug

Please attach the log file to the bug report because it will help me investigate where the bug is.

- Please evaluate it AT YOUR OWN RISK.

Any comments/suggestions will be welcome.

Regards,
-Jun YOSHIDA

It must be very small, because i cant see it :/

JonB
ps: if i use galeon rather than netscape 4.77, i can see the screenshot

on [Fri, 11 Oct 2002 09:11:41 +0200],
Jon Bendtsen <[email protected]> wrote on "Re: [linux-lvm] A tool to administrate LVM."

I put English manual temporarily.

http://www.miraclelinux.com/developer/lvmadmin-doc-e.html

Please try to read it.

Thank you,
-Jun

It's much better, and it does appear as a usefull tool. How ever, all my LVM's are ontop of a software raid1, what color are they ?

JonB

on [Fri, 11 Oct 2002 10:05:02 +0200],
Jon Bendtsen <[email protected]> wrote on "Re: [linux-lvm] A tool to administrate LVM."

Oops! I have not considered about that. LVMAdmin will be unable to probe software raid.

I have a lots of things I have to implement. LVMAdmin won't work well with software raid and raw device and it might exit with some errors in such cases.

I will enhance LVMAdmin as much as I can.

Thank you,
-Jun

Hello all,

I have registered LVMAdmin source to SourceForge.net.

http://lvmadmin.sourceforge.net/

Please tell me if any of you would like to be one of the developers of LVMAdmin who would code for internationalization and implement some more features.
I will commit some files such as COPYING, README, etc. in CVS.

# Although I haven't enhanced LVMAdmin for the issue below since I # haven't had enough time to do it. :(

Regards,
-Jun

on [Fri, 11 Oct 2002 17:48:28 +0900],
Jun YOSHIDA <[email protected]> wrote on "Re: [linux-lvm] A tool to administrate LVM."