Re: parted/LVM for ET [Re: [Libvir] Storage manager initial requirements and thoughts

Richard W.M. Jones wrote: I should add, in a libvirt context it's probably going to be useful to also: * list available volume groups (vgscan) * list space available in each VG (vgdisplay name-of-vg) * show how VGs relate to PGs (pvscan) The LVM tools use quite a sophisticated internal API which isn't exported - but see for example tools/tools.h and include/*.h in the LVM2 source code. <libdevmapper.h> is also available, but much more lowlevel. Rich. -- Emerging Technologies, Red Hat http://et.redhat.com/~rjones/ 64 Baker Street, London, W1U 7DF Mobile: +44 7866 314 421 "[Negative numbers] darken the very whole doctrines of the equations and make dark of the things which are in their nature excessively obvious and simple" (Francis Maseres FRS, mathematician, 1759)