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# xLet's learn to administer (manage) our LVM graphically for our '''centos2''' Virtual Machine.<br />CentOS provides a tool called '''system-config-lvm''' to graphically administer LVM.# Install the system-config-lvm application by issuing the command: <b><code><span style="color:#3366CC;font-size:1.2em;">yum install system-config-lvm</span></code></b><ol> <li value="2">Use this tool to determine the current LVM configuration by clicking on the appropriate element and reading the properties in the right-hand panel -- write down the answers: <ol type="a"> <li>What are the names and sizes of the '''PV'''s?</li> <li>What is the name and size of the '''VG'''?</li> <li>What are the names and sizes of the '''LV'''s?</li> <li>Is there any space in the VG which is not allocated to a LV?</li> </ol> </li> <li>Increase the size of the home file-system to '''4 GB''': <ol type="a"> <li>Click on the LV containing the '''home''' filesystem.</li> <li>Click on ''Edit Properties''.</li> <li>Change the size to '''4 GB''' and click ''Ok''.</li> </ol> <li>Create a '''new 3G LV''' (LV Properties: linear) containing an ext4 filesystem named lv_archive and mount it at '''/archive''' <li>Backup <code>'''/etc'''</code> into <code>'''/archive'''</code></li></ol>::* Copy the files in /etc into the filesystem mounted at <code>/archive</code><br />(use the graphical tools or the command line. If using cp, remember to use the -R option).<ol> <li value="6">Shrink the size of <code>lv_archive</code> to '''1 GB'''.</li> <li>Try shrinking the home file-system. What happens? Why?</li></ol>
'''Answer Part 1 observations / questions in your lab log book.'''
