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=== Assistant: You’re not crazy — what you’re seeing is exactly how the Qubes installer is designed, and the confusion comes from a re… ===
You’re not crazy — what you’re seeing is exactly how the Qubes installer is designed, and the confusion comes from a real limitation / design choice, not from you missing a button.

I’ll answer your 3 questions directly, then give you the one correct mental model that makes everything click, and finally tell you the only two ways to get what you want.

==== Qubes supports LVM Thin Provisioning only for the Qubes-managed storage pool. ====
That pool lives inside the encrypted qubes-dom0 LVM.

Everything outside that pool:
* is not managed by Qubes
* is not thin-provisioned
* must be created as normal disk partitions

There is no supported way to mix:

: 

from the Custom screen alone.

That’s why you’re stuck.

==== ## ====

Because LVM Thin is not a partition type.

It is:
* a storage backend decision
* made before partitioning
* applied automatically by Qubes only to qubes-dom0

===== - In Custom → storage configuration choice =====
* Internally, for: - / (dom0 root) - VM volumes - template/app qubes

===== - Blivet Advanced GUI =====
* Manual partition creation
* Extra mountpoints

So:
* You are not supposed to create thin pools manually there
* Qubes does it for you after you choose “LVM Thin Provisioning”

👉 This is by design, not a bug.

==== Yes — and this part is simple. ====

You have 32 GiB RAM.

To hibernate:
* swap ≥ RAM
* encrypted
* accessible early in boot

✔ 33 GiB encrypted swap inside qubes-dom0 is perfect

If swap is smaller:
* hibernation will fail
* system resumes from cold boot

==== This is the core question, and the answer is: ====

===== Custom mode: =====
* Controls only the Qubes system
* Everything it creates belongs to qubes-dom0
* Everything under it is encrypted
* Everything uses thin provisioning

That’s why:
* /home, /var, /swap → all encrypted
* No option for “unencrypted media” here

==== There are only two valid ways. ====