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=== Part 1: Managing File System Size with Existing Hard Drive ===
We will now use LVM in order to grow and reduce our file system, using extra unallocated space on our existing (default) virtual hard disk for our centos2 VM. [[Image:lvm1ssm.png|thumb|500px|right|The Graphical programs like '''system-config-lvm''' application allows are <u>'''deprecated'''</u>, and no longer come bundled with Centos. There are other graphical LVM programs, but are for the Linux system administrator KDE desktop environment as opposed to manage LVMs GraphicallyGnome. Your LVM information for Command-line tools such as ssm, '''fdisk''', '''mkfs''', '''pvcreate''', ''centos2'lvextend'' VM should be similarly displayed.]]# Let's learn to administer (manage) our LVM graphically for our , and '''centos2lvreduce''' Virtual Machineare sufficient to resize file systems when using LVM.]]
# Launch your '''centos2''' VM and open a shell terminal.
# CentOS provides a tool called '''system-config-lvm''' to graphically administer LVM.<br><br>'''NOTE:''' This tool may be replaced by a future graphical LVM management tool and is NOT currently available in the default repositories. We will now perform a "work-around" in order to make the system-config-lvm utility work in our system.<br><br>