[DESKTOP] Install to drive with LVM not possible to remove LVM partitions

[AirOp]

I was upgrading my Aunts 16.04 to 18 to 20 to 22 to 24 and I realized I should just do a clean install. I was dealing with a boot drive that was too small too .. anyway, I decided to copy her data to another drive and then do a fresh install.

The fresh install could not occur because I could only select an LVM partition or manual setup. I did manual setup last time and caused problems, so I'm not doing that again.

Anyway, the installer would not let me clear /dev/sda to be just one partition, it left the boot and let me do an LVM partition.

I thought LVM was going to be amazing but it caused so many problems... I just went to commandline and fdisked the partitions away and rebooted and got the clean install I wanted, but this is an oversite/bug.

They make it so hard to post bugs now.

Thank you. Kubuntu is awesome and is the replacement for windows 10.

[oshunluvr]

If the drive has no data on it, wipe it clean and try again. The installer isn't intended to be a drive management tool. It's abilities to modify drive partitioning is limited.

If it were me, I would boot to the LiveUSB and open konsole, the run wipefs -a /dev/sda

BE SURE YOU USE THE CORRECT DEVICE NAME if you have more than one drive. The wipefs command is not reversible.

Once the drive is un-partitioned, the installer should offer you the "Use entire disk" option, which what I assume you want.