Am Montag, 19. November 2007 schrieb Douglas A. Tutty: > 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.
Hi Doug, I did no fresh install and I have a lot of very important data to save. So, you do not know, how to resize it with a nice GUI, do you ? Cheers Hans -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
