Enterprise Volume Management System
Enterprise Volume Management System (EVMS) is a flexible, integrated volume management software used to manage storage systems under Linux.
Its features include:
- handle EVMS, Linux LVM and LVM2 volumes
- handle many kinds of disk partitioning schemes
- handle many different file systems (Ext2, Ext3, FAT, JFS, NTFS, OCFS2, OpenGFS, ReiserFS, Swap, XFS etc.)
- multi-disk (MD) management
- software RAID: level 0, 1, 4 and 5
- drive linking (device concatenation)
- multipath support
- manage shared cluster storage
- expand and shrink volumes and file systems online or offline (depending on the file system's capabilities)
- snapshots (frozen images of volumes), optionally writable
- conversion between different volume types
- move partitions
- make, check and repair file systems
- bad block relocation
- three types of user interface: GUI, text mode interface and CLI
- backup and restore the EVMS metadata
EVMS is licensed under the GNU General Public License version 2 or later.