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What is the GUI manager for LVM in 17.10? There is no system-config-lvm that I can see.

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Until Ubuntu 18.04 (included), you can install KVPM, but you have to install some KDE dependencies it has; they're not many as they said in their page. If you use some QT software it is very probable you already have the dependencies already on the system.

sudo apt install kvpm

system-config-lvm is outdated and can't manage some new features of LVM (as reported by itself) so don't bother trying to install it.

SebMa
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cablop
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You can use KDE Partition Manager

sudo apt install partitionmanager

At the moment it does not work under Gnome Wayland session. So you have to use either X11 or Plasma Wayland. In the near future, KDE Partition Manager will be able to run without using root privileges (I already have most of the functionality working), then it will work much better under Wayland.

You can also allow running XWayland root GUI apps if you first run "xhost +".

EDIT: Ubuntu 20.04 has KDE Partition 4.0 which works well on Wayland.

Andrius Štikonas
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Blivet-gui is a graphical tool for storage management that uses Blivet library

https://github.com/storaged-project/blivet-gui

The installation instructions are here : https://github.com/storaged-project/blivet-gui#installation

SebMa
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Amr
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This answer is based on comments above.

I installed an old version of system-config-lvm from reposcope. Then i had to make sure to run on Xorg, not Wayland -- log out and choose "Ubuntu on Xorg" from the gear menu, then log in. After that i could start it just fine from the dash or command line.

If you try it on Wayland (the default), it will crash and not open.

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If you are using any later than 18.04 by now,
you can actually use the old GUI from 18.04 as described here:
how to manage mirror legs and stripes in graphical way now w/o KVPM on 20.04?
by just installing these 2 packages:
https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/bionic/amd64/liblvm2app2.2/2.02.176-4.1ubuntu3.18.04.3
https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/bionic/amd64/kvpm/0.9.10-1.1
manually (or with gdebi-gtk)

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