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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.

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