Graphical tool for LVM?
Hi!
Does anybody know of somebody working on a X-based management tool for LVM? If not, I would start trying to make something � la "Disk administration" of WinNT/2k, with resizing of both LV and fs and things like that. The idea of this is to have a graphical overview of how are VGs LVs arranged on our PVs and easy administration.
Regards,
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Does anybody know of somebody working on a X-based management tool for LVM?
There is at least one perl/Tk project, can be found on freshmeat, URL escapes my lazy head now =)
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If not, I would start trying to make something � la "Disk administration" of WinNT/2k,
Pleasepleasepleaseplease, don't do it like that POS ;)
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with resizing of both LV and fs and things
like that. The idea of this is to have a graphical overview of how are VGs LVs arranged on our PVs and easy administration.
This would be very nice to have right from the start, for example in DiskDruid. I'm sure a lot of dists would not yet be willing to take it in though (apart from Rock maybe?). SGI did the XFS install disks, though. Maybe something similiar. Curses "GUI" as well as X (Xaw would be ideal/servers, GTK for prettiness).
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There is at least one perl/Tk project, can be found on freshmeat, URL escapes my lazy head now =)
I've looked at freshmeat right now, and there is a project, indeed. Tell your "lazy head" about the address :) :
http://www.widd.de/bernd/lva/
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Pleasepleasepleaseplease, don't do it like that POS ;)
Why not? Something I like of Windows 2000 is its Disk Administrator. Thanks for pointing me to freshmeat, I wouldn't think about it...
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There is at least one perl/Tk project, can be found on freshmeat, URL escapes my lazy head now =)
I've looked at freshmeat right now, and there is a project, indeed. Tell your "lazy head" about the address :) :
http://www.widd.de/bernd/lva/
I'm sure I have that somewhere. I have a computer for that kind of things =) Anyway, that's the Tk one? No others?
Personally I didn't find it to be very useful, I rather get along with the (excellent) command-line utils.
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Pleasepleasepleaseplease, don't do it like that POS ;)
Why not? Something I like of Windows 2000 is its Disk Administrator. Thanks for pointing me to freshmeat, I wouldn't think about it...
I haven't looked at the win2k one more than a glance, only the NT4 one. It's like fdisk but more useless ;)
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There are also the java one by jorge de jong. It looks like the only one under any sort of active development. (latest release = May 3)
It looks lovely - but unfortunately - is in java. (please - i don't want to start that thread again)
if one of these suit your needs try them - else they may be the base for your own project.
I think there are some other projects to create LVM GUIs - you might want to check the mailing list archives. The problem is, none of them have ever (AFAIK) gained much user / developer support - and have sort of been
flashes in the dark / mostly useful to the creaters. This may be in part
to the easy and powerful CL utils.
-j
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There is at least one perl/Tk project, can be found on freshmeat, URL escapes my lazy head now =)
I've looked at freshmeat right now, and there is a project, indeed. Tell your "lazy head" about the address :) :
http://www.widd.de/bernd/lva/I'm sure I have that somewhere. I have a computer for that kind of things =) Anyway, that's the Tk one? No others?
Personally I didn't find it to be very useful, I rather get along with the (excellent) command-line utils.
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Pleasepleasepleaseplease, don't do it like that POS ;)
Why not? Something I like of Windows 2000 is its Disk Administrator. Thanks for pointing me to freshmeat, I wouldn't think about it...
I haven't looked at the win2k one more than a glance, only the NT4 one. It's like fdisk but more useless ;)
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Quoted 4 lines · Harri Haataja
Quoted 2 lines · David Vidal Rodriguez
Does anybody know of somebody working on a X-based management tool for LVM?
There's a Java one at:
http://www.xs4all.nl/~mmj/lvm/
patrick
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On Wed, 9 May 2001, David Vidal Rodriguez wrote:
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This would be very nice to have right from the start, for example in DiskDruid. I'm sure a lot of dists would not yet be willing to take it in though (apart from Rock maybe?). SGI did the XFS install disks, though. Maybe something similiar. Curses "GUI" as well as X (Xaw would be ideal/servers, GTK for prettiness).
SuSE 7.1's Yast installer allows you to configure the LVM (create VG, add PV, add LV etc) as part of the installation process. It's a tex curses interface. Quite nice -- a nice logical layout and a bit like Disk Druid, but I never had much success in creating a LVM only machine... but then I'm a LVM newbie and those "non-trivial changes required for a root LVM" SuSE's installer mentions are not exactly documented by them (as far as I can tell).
Matt
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If not, I would start trying to make something à la "Disk administration" of WinNT/2k, with resizing of both LV and fs and things like that. The idea of this is to have a graphical overview of how are VGs LVs arranged on our PVs and easy administration.
I'm writing a perl toolkit to work with LVM. if you're interested in the source, I can toss it along.
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but I'm still annoyed at the PV-names in /proc/lvm/globals. </rant>
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Terje
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Quoted 4 lines · David Vidal Rodriguez
If not, I would start trying to make something � la "Disk administration" of WinNT/2k, with resizing of both LV and fs and things like that. The idea of this is to have a graphical overview of how are VGs LVs arranged on our PVs and easy administration.
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I'm writing a perl toolkit to work with LVM. if you're interested in the source, I can toss it along.
<rant>
but I'm still annoyed at the PV-names in/proc/lvm/globals. </rant>
OK, fixed it, you can shut up now :-)
patrick
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but I'm still annoyed at the PV-names in/proc/lvm/globals. </rant>OK, fixed it, you can shut up now :-)
why thank you! :)
,----[ caulfield 2001/05/10 09:23:14 CDT ]
| Modified files: | kernel lvm-fs.c | Log: | Show much more of the PV name in /proc/lvm/global. In other words, this now | works with devfs: rather than just showing "disc"*(sic) or "part1" it shows the | whole name but without "dev". | | * I'm English and I still think that's wrong! | | Revision Changes Path | 1.3 +2 -1 LVM/kernel/lvm-fs.c
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that means it's time for me to rebuild again... awe... uptime vs. features. I want hot-swappable kernels now!
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Terje
I'm thinking about doing a cfdisk-like ncurses-program (just in case
we can't start X) that will be linked against the liblvm-10.so library. Or has someone of you ever typed something like
# addpartition /dev/hda --number 1 --sectors 1-483 --type 0xc ???
Cheers,
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