YaST Expert Partitioner is an advanced storage management tool from the YaST project.
It provides detailed control over disks, partitions and filesystems, including facilities for creating, deleting, moving and resizing partitions. Changes can be reviewed before they are written to storage devices.
The application goes well beyond conventional partition editing, with integrated management of LVM, software RAID, encrypted storage, Bcache and other Linux storage technologies.
This is free and open source software.
Key Features
- Creates, deletes, moves and resizes partitions through a graphical interface.
- Creates and manages filesystems, mount points and filesystem-specific options.
- Full management of LVM physical volumes, volume groups and logical volumes.
- Creates and manages Linux MD software RAID configurations.
- Supports encrypted storage using LUKS, including LUKS1 and LUKS2.
- Creates and manages Bcache devices for combining fast and slower storage.
- Supports Btrfs filesystems, subvolumes, quota groups and multi-device configurations.
- Creates and edits NFS mounts alongside local storage.
- Displays detailed information about disks, partitions, filesystems and their relationships.
- Can create new partition tables and clone partition layouts between disks.
Website: github.com/yast/yast-storage-ng
Support:
Developer: YaST Team
License: GNU General Public License v2.0 / v3.0
YaST Expert Partitioner is written in Ruby. Learn Ruby with our recommended free books and free tutorials.
Related Software
| Partitioning Tools | |
|---|---|
| GParted | Popular partition editor for graphically managing your disk partitions |
| KDE Partition Manager | Disk partitioning application for the KDE Platform |
| GNOME Disks | The disk utility in GNOME |
| Parted | GParted and KDE Partition Manager use the Parted libraries |
| GPT fdisk | Set of text-mode partitioning tools |
| disktui | TUI for disk management and partitioning |
| blivet-gui | Graphical tool for storage configuration |
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