1. A computer-implemented method comprising: providing, by a processing device running on a server, a library having a set of application programming interfaces to interface an application and a logical volume manager (LVM); and in response to an error occurring while running the application in operation with the LVM, returning, by the processing device, an error string in a natural language, a piece of programming code associated with the error, and an error code associated with the error using one or more of the set of application programming interfaces.