Using Webmin to Manage Partition and Drives in Ubuntu Server
Tony
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
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“.