Novell LINUX ENTERPRISE SERVER 10 - INSTALLATION AND ADMINISTRATION 04-08-2006 Installation Manual page 161

7.5.7 EVMS
The enterprise volume management system (EVMS) is, like LVM, a tool for custom
partitioning and grouping of hard disks into virtual volumes. It is flexible, extensible,
and can be tailored using a plug-in model to individual needs of various volume man-
agement systems.
EVMS is compatible with existing memory and volume management systems, like
DOS, Linux LVM, GPT (GUID partition table), IBM System z, Macintosh, and BSD
partitions. More information is provided at http://evms.sourceforge.net/.
7.5.8 Partitioner
With the expert dialog, shown in
ally modify the partitioning of one or several hard disks. Partitions can be added,
deleted, resized, and edited. Also access the soft RAID, EVMS, and LVM configuration
from this YaST module.
WARNING
Although it is possible to modify the partitions in the installed system, this
should be handled only by experts. Otherwise the risk of making a mistake that
causes data loss is very high. If you repartition a hard disk in use, reboot the
system right afterwards. It is safer to use the rescue system than repartition
the system while running.
Figure 7.4, "The YaST Partitioner" (page 162), manu-
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