[Pkg-utopia-maintainers] Bug#563845: Bug#563845: gnome-disk-utility: lists LVM logical volumes as physical disks

[Michael Biebl]

reassign 563845 devicekit-disks
retitle 563845 devicekit-disks needs proper LVM support
forwarded 563845 https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=24599
thanks

brian m. carlson wrote:
> Package: gnome-disk-utility
> Version: 2.28.1-2
> Severity: normal
> 
> When I run gnome-disk-utility, all of my LVM logical volumes are listed
> as hard disks.  Although they are block devices, they cannot be usefully
> used as hard disks: they cannot be partitioned and SMART cannot be run
> on them.
> 
> LVM logical volumes should be listed as logical volumes, preferably
> under the volume group of which they are a part.

Imo this is more of a dk-disks issue, as currently dk-disks has no special lvm
support. You certainly need special gui support for lvm devices, nonetheless I'm
reassigning the bug to dk-disks as this is where the underlying issue has to be
addressed.

Michael


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