Disk Partitioning tools, GUI preferably- best for LVM Logical Volume Management ; jorUbuntu

[Tom H]

On Fri, Jul 23, 2010 at 11:26 PM, giovanni_re <john_re at fastmail.us> wrote:
>
> What are the best tools (ie sw) for doing disk partitioning? Preferably
> GUI. but, console mode suggestions welcome if that's best, or all there
> is.
>
> I've installed GPartEd, but it can't see into LVs - Logical volumes.
> Thus, it can't _create_ anything there.

VGs and LVs cannot be seen by fdisk/parted.

fdisk/parted create partitions and these partitions are then "made
available" to LVM through "pvcreate...".

VGs and LVs are then created and managed on these PVs through LVM's tools.