Chapter 4. Managing EVMS Devices | ||||
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Chapter 4. Managing EVMS Devices | ||||
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| 3.5. Additional Information | 4.2. Initializing Disks | | |
This section describes how to initialize a disk for EVMS management by adding a segment management container to manage the partitions that you later add to the disk.
In EVMS, you initialize a disk by assigning a segment manager to it. The segment manager creates metadata for the disk and exposes its free space so you can subdivide it into one or multiple segments (also called partitions).
The most commonly used segment manager is the DOS Segment Manager. The following table describes the segment managers available in EVMS.
Table 4.1. EVMS Segment Managers
After you initialize the disk by adding a segment manager, you see metadata and free space segments on the disk. You can then create one or multiple data segments in a disk segment.
Table 4.2. Disk Segment Types
