On Mon, 20 Aug 2012 17:57:31 +0200 "tv.deb...@googlemail.com" <tv.deb...@googlemail.com> wrote:
> On 20/08/2012 16:53, J. B wrote: > > > > Dear list, > > > > Is there anyone who is successful increasing LUKS partition ? > > I have 2 physical partitions /dev/sda1 and /dev/sda2. > > There is 800 GB free disk space (un-partitioned) between sda1& sda2 > > Whole /dev/sda2 is dedicated to a LUKS partition which holds a LVM. > > I have tried with gparted to increase /dev/sda2 but there is no support to > > increase luks. > > How can I increase sda2, so that I can later execute cryptsetup resize ? > > > > Thanks > > > > > Hi, I resized LUKS containers on several occasions, without lvm on top > but it shouldn't be much more difficult. > I usually operate from a live-cd, any will do as long as there is > cryptsetup/lvm/whatever-filesystem-you-use support, or that you can > install it. > Close LUKS container if open (unmount partition, close lvm first if > needed), fire up fdisk to destroy the partition that support the LUKS > container, and recreate it with the desired size. fdisk commands are "d" > (destroy), But it also destroy the data in LVM, no ? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20120820224440.51d89...@shiva.selfip.org
