Using Webmin to Manage Partition and Drives in Ubuntu Server
- Create and mount the volume
- Create volume:
- Hardware -> Logical Volume Management -> Logical Volumes -> Create a logical volume in Media-server-vg (your server name)
- Volume name: ServerData, Click “Create“
- Click on that newly created volume, make sure the drop down selected Linux Native (ext3) and click the Create filesystem of type, Click Create again to create a new empty partition.
- Mount volume
- System -> Disk and Network Filesystems
- Select Linux Native Filesystem (ext3)/New Linux Native Filesystem (ext4) from drop down, and click on “Add mount“
- Select /media or/mnt for Mounted as and then type to finish it as “/media/ServerData” , then click OK
- Check “LVM logical volume” and select your newly created Logical Volume for Linux Native Filesystem
- Click “Create“. Your drive is ready to use.
- Format the volume
- Create volume:
- Add additional drives
- Hardware -> Partitions on Local Disks -> select the new “Disk name” – > click on Add primary partition -> Create. You have just created the partition
- To format, click on your newly created partition -> click on Create Filesystem with the option Linux Native selected -> click Create Filesystem -> Create Create Filesystem.
- To mount, you did the same as above except this time, you select “Partition with ID” instead of “LVM logical volume“.
Like This Post:
Leave a Reply