[gentoo-user] EVMS (was: Resize /)

[Alexander Skwar <listen@alexander.skwar.name>]

Dirk Heinrichs <ext-dirk.heinrichs@nokia.com>:

> Am Dienstag, 21. November 2006 06:55 schrieb ext Dale:
> 
>> > OK, here's my proposal: First, decide which volume management system to
>> > use (LVM or EVMS). LVM is just one more volume management tool which
>> > you would have to learn (beside fdisk, mkfs.*, raid tools, ...), while
>> > EVMS does it all, and more. Then, do the real work:
>>
>> Which one is better and good for someone new to this?  I'm fairly
>> descent at Linux.  Just thought I would warn you I am not a guru, yet.
>> ;-)  I'm working on it though.
> 
> That's definitely EVMS. It replaces everything from fdisk over mkfs to RAID 
> with one single tool.

With EVMS, can I make it so, that the "things" where I put filesystems
on (logical volumes in LVM, partitions in old style partitioning) are
NOT consecutive? Because that's the great feature of LVM.

Example:

- place1
- place2

place1 and place2 are directly "beneath" each other (in old style
partition speak: end cylinder of place1 is just 1 before the start
cylinder of place2). Now place1 needs to be made bigger.

What to do?

> With EVMS:
> emerge evms
> run evmsn or evmsgui
> create the partitions (segments), using the DOS segment manager.
> create a volume group (container), using the LVM2 plugin (here you see that 
> to some extend, EVMS is just an umbrella for everything storage related).
> create logical volumes (regions), again using the LVM2 plugin.

Ah. So EVMS makes use of LVM and is just some sort of GUI? So I
need to know EVMS and at least the basics of LVM?

Alexander Skwar
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