Exercise 1.4 – Managing file system with Web Console

Formatting a logical volume using Cockpit

  1. Login to Cockpit
  2. Click on Storage
  3. Create a Volume Group
  4. Click on the volume group which you created earlier under Volume group.
  5. Click on create a new logical volume and create a new one.
  6.  On the Filesystem subtab, Click on Format and give the mounting point and type (XFS,EXT4,…)

Mounting a file system using Cockpit

  1. On the Filesystem subtab, click the value of Mount Point.
  2. Click on the Mount tab.

Unmounting a file system using Cockpit

  1. On the Filesystem subtab, click the value of Mount Point
  2. Click on the Mount tab.