A quick follow up question: I am creating users and shared files on the Server. That is fine. My next step is to create access from various clients to server files where I intent to store audio, photo and video files - are there good guides for connecting clients (windows xp, windows vista, iphone, ...

Thank you, Ian.
I ran the commands, got nothing. I then went a few steps back and established the logical volume once again in webmin, and then the guidelines got me through the partitioning just fine.

I am setting up an Ubuntu Server. In Webmin I am trying to prepare a logical volume for media files. I am following the guidelines of this webpage: m However, when I am trying to create a mount, I get the following error message each time: Failed to save mount : Mount failed : mount: wrong fs type, ...