---
name: "system-config-lvm"
section: "8x"
platform: "linux"
package: "system-config-lvm"
version: "1.1.18-3"
release: "Debian 9 (Stretch)"
platforms: ["linux"]
url: "https://new.carta.tech/system-config-lvm"
---

# system-config-lvm(8x)

GUI for LVM

## NAME

system-config-lvm - GUI for LVM

## SYNOPSIS

**system-config-lvm**

## DESCRIPTION

system-config-lvm provides a graphical interface to the LVM tools (and related utilities, including fsck and resize2fs) which is good for non-emergency storage administration.

It enables you to manage your logical volume and filesystem configuration with a few mouse clicks, and it prevents potentially disastrous mistakes using commandline such as reducing a logical volume size before reducing the filesystem contained within that volume.

WARNING:\
 system-config-lvm does not recognize RAID elements as being in use, and therefore lists them as "Unitnitialized Entities". If you are using a LVM-on-RAID configuration, system-config-lvm will let you wipe out RAID elements by making them into PVs, so be careful about that.

system-config-lvm does exactly what you tell it to do, so watch your click and think about it twice before acting.

## AUTHOR

system-config-lvm was written by Jim Parsons \<jparsons@redhat.com\>.

This manual page was written by Philipp Huebner \<debalance@debian.org\>, for the Debian project (but may be used by others).

## SEE ALSO

**[lvm(8)](/lvm/8.md)**