Should a newbie like me even attempt this!?

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This is what I get with df -ah:

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Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on
/dev/hda6 3.9G 1.7G 2.1G 45% /
none 0 0 0 - /proc
none 0 0 0 - /sys
none 0 0 0 - /dev/pts
usbfs 0 0 0 - /proc/bus/usb
/dev/hda2 99M 6.7M 87M 8% /boot
none 122M 0 122M 0% /dev/shm
none 0 0 0 - /proc/sys/fs/binfmt_misc
sunrpc 0 0 0 - /var/lib/nfs/rpc_pipefs

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This is what I get with fdisk -l

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Disk /dev/hda: 160.0 GB, 160041885696 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 19457 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes

Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/hda1 * 1 1913 15366141 c W95 FAT32 (LBA)/dev/hda2 1914 1926 104422+ 83 Linux
/dev/hda3 3012 19457 132102495 8e Linux LVM
/dev/hda4 1927 3011 8715262+ f W95 Ext'd (LBA)/dev/hda5 1927 2436 4096543+ 8e Linux LVM
/dev/hda6 2437 2946 4096543+ 83 Linux
/dev/hda7 2947 3011 522081 82 Linux swap

Partition table entries are not in disk order
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So my LVM volumes are there. But how do me and my fellow users access them? Is it done through some sort of mnt command. Do I have to set this up? Is there a way to see LVM partitions via GUI as folders - I wanted to use them to store the organisations collaborative project and client file folders on hda3 (see above), but if staff have to get to these via command line they'll freak! I presume that LVMs don't magically sit in the /home and /user directories where I imagined them to go - how naiive can you get! but if it is possible to map a lvm to a folder in the /home directory of root then that would be a great answer to my dreams.

Have you seen:

http://www-106.ibm.com/developerwork...library/l-lvm/

???

If you have a file system on the lvm blocks, then you can mount them just live any other file system. ONce mounted they can be accessed by the GUI like normal. Yu could include symolic links in all the users /home/username directories or provide a directory off /root (roots home directory) to mount the volumes. They can be automatically mounted at boottime so suers won't have to use command line - b'sides, you don't want users accesing the mnt command anyway.

Thanks Simon

I'll learn up from the link you've supplied and see what I dont know then