On Mon, Nov 19, 2007 at 09:42:20PM +0100, Hans-J. Ullrich wrote: > > I now got my system encrypted ( I used dm-crypt) without loosing data. > It needed a lot of work and time. But now almost every thing is working fine. > Besides, there is just one thing, I got not managed: > moving and resizing the encrpted partitions. > > I tried a livefilesystem and gparted (as I dare not to use the commandline > tool), but gparted always tries to check the filesystem. But there is no > filesystem recognizable dute to the encryption. As gparted cannot end its > procedure, it hangs and the changes get reverted. > > What can I do ? > > Partitions are now: > > /dev/sda3 /boot unencrypted > /dev/sda6 / unencrypted > /dev/sda7 /home encrypted, > /dev/sda8 /usr encrpyted > /dev/sda9 /var encrypted > > All encrypted partitions shall be moved and resized. > > Any help will be very, very welcome !!
This is what LVM was designed to do. Since you went to all the trouble of encrypting "needed a lot of work and time", why didn't you use LVM? Doug. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
