[linux-lvm] Graphical tool for LVM?

[linux-lvm] Graphical tool for LVM?

[David Vidal Rodriguez]

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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Re: [linux-lvm] Graphical tool for LVM?

[Harri Haataja]

On Wed, 9 May 2001, David Vidal Rodriguez wrote:

> 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 =)

> If not, I would start trying to make something � la "Disk
> administration" of WinNT/2k,

Pleasepleasepleaseplease, don't do it like that POS ;)

> 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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Re: [linux-lvm] Graphical tool for LVM?

[David Vidal Rodriguez]

>
> 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/

> 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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Re: [linux-lvm] Graphical tool for LVM?

[Harri Haataja]

On Wed, 9 May 2001, David Vidal Rodriguez wrote:

> > 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.

> > 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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Re: [linux-lvm] Graphical tool for LVM?

[John Marquart]

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



On Wed, 9 May 2001, Harri Haataja wrote:

> On Wed, 9 May 2001, David Vidal Rodriguez wrote:
> 
> > > 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.
> 
> > > 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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Re: [linux-lvm] Graphical tool for LVM?

[Patrick Caulfield]

On Wed, May 09, 2001 at 01:46:30PM +0300, Harri Haataja wrote:
> On Wed, 9 May 2001, David Vidal Rodriguez wrote:
> 
> > 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

Re: [linux-lvm] Graphical tool for LVM?

[Matthew Kennedy]

On 09 May 2001 13:46:30 +0300, Harri Haataja wrote:
> On Wed, 9 May 2001, David Vidal Rodriguez wrote:
<snip>
> 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

Re: [linux-lvm] Graphical tool for LVM?

[Terje Kvernes]

David Vidal Rodriguez <vidalrod@informatik.tu-muenchen.de> writes:

> 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. 

  <rant>
  but I'm still annoyed at the PV-names in /proc/lvm/globals.
  </rant>

-- 
Terje

Re: [linux-lvm] Graphical tool for LVM?

[Patrick Caulfield]

On Thu, May 10, 2001 at 03:12:47PM +0200, Terje Kvernes wrote:
> David Vidal Rodriguez <vidalrod@informatik.tu-muenchen.de> writes:
> 
> > 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.
> 
>   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

Re: [linux-lvm] Graphical tool for LVM?

[Terje Kvernes]

Patrick Caulfield <caulfield@sistina.com> writes:

> On Thu, May 10, 2001 at 03:12:47PM +0200, Terje Kvernes wrote:
>
> > <rant>
> > 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
`----

  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

Re: [linux-lvm] Graphical tool for LVM?

[David Vidal Rodriguez]

    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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