diff --git a/src/core/devicescanner.cpp b/src/core/devicescanner.cpp
index 1e4da1d..d4b4f7b 100644
--- a/src/core/devicescanner.cpp
+++ b/src/core/devicescanner.cpp
@@ -63,33 +63,14 @@ void DeviceScanner::scan()
     clear();
 
     QList<Device*> deviceList = CoreBackendManager::self()->backend()->scanDevices();
-    QList<LvmDevice*> lvmList = scanLvmDevices();
+    QList<LvmDevice*> lvmList = LvmDevice::scanSystemLVM();
 
     foreach(Device * d, deviceList)
         operationStack().addDevice(d);
 
     foreach(Device * d, lvmList)
-    operationStack().addDevice(d);
+        operationStack().addDevice(d);
 
     operationStack().sortDevices();
 }
 
-/* Return list of VG (LvmDevice) on the system */
-QList<LvmDevice*> DeviceScanner::scanLvmDevices() const
-{
-    QList<LvmDevice*> lvmList;
-
-    ExternalCommand scanLvm(QStringLiteral("lvm"),
-            { QStringLiteral("vgdisplay")});
-
-    if (scanLvm.run(-1) && scanLvm.exitCode() == 0) {
-        QRegularExpression re(QStringLiteral("VG Name\\h+(\\w+)"));
-        QRegularExpressionMatchIterator i = re.globalMatch(scanLvm.output());
-        while(i.hasNext()) {
-            QRegularExpressionMatch vgName = i.next();
-            LvmDevice* temp = new LvmDevice(vgName.captured(1));
-            lvmList.append(temp);
-        }
-    }
-    return lvmList;
-}
diff --git a/src/core/devicescanner.h b/src/core/devicescanner.h
index deec515..741c406 100644
--- a/src/core/devicescanner.h
+++ b/src/core/devicescanner.h
@@ -23,7 +23,6 @@
 #include <QThread>
 
 class OperationStack;
-class LvmDevice;
 
 /** Thread to scan for all available Devices on this computer.
 
@@ -55,8 +54,6 @@ protected:
         return m_OperationStack;
     }
 
-    QList<LvmDevice*> scanLvmDevices() const;
-
 private:
     OperationStack& m_OperationStack;
 };
diff --git a/src/core/lvmdevice.cpp b/src/core/lvmdevice.cpp
index 5fd2f13..9eee081 100644
--- a/src/core/lvmdevice.cpp
+++ b/src/core/lvmdevice.cpp
@@ -163,6 +163,21 @@ Partition* LvmDevice::scanPartition(const QString& lvpath, const LvmDevice& dev,
     return part;
 }
 
+QList<LvmDevice*> LvmDevice::scanSystemLVM()
+{
+    QList<LvmDevice*> lvmList;
+
+    QString output = getField(QStringLiteral("vg_name"));
+    if (!output.isEmpty()) {
+        QStringList vgnameList = output.split(QStringLiteral("\n"), QString::SkipEmptyParts);
+        foreach(QString vgname, vgnameList) {
+            lvmList.append(new LvmDevice(vgname.trimmed()));
+        }
+    }
+
+    return lvmList;
+}
+
 qint64 LvmDevice::mappedSector(const QString& lvpath, qint64 sector) const
 {
     qint64 mSector = 0;
diff --git a/src/core/lvmdevice.h b/src/core/lvmdevice.h
index ac80038..751b614 100644
--- a/src/core/lvmdevice.h
+++ b/src/core/lvmdevice.h
@@ -52,6 +52,8 @@ public:
     QList<Partition*> scanPartitions(const LvmDevice& dev, PartitionTable* pTable) const;
     Partition* scanPartition(const QString& lvPath, const LvmDevice& dev, PartitionTable* pTable) const;
 
+    static QList<LvmDevice*> scanSystemLVM();
+
     static qint64 getPeSize(const QString& vgname);
     static qint64 getTotalPE(const QString& vgname);
     static qint64 getAllocatedPE(const QString& vgname);