Re: expanding a luks volume

2010-01-24 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
On Sunday 24 January 2010 03:31:02 Alex Samad wrote: > I did some more research, amazingly I found more stuff than before... > Seems like cryptosetup has a resize options > > so for me > > lvresize > cryptosetup resize While a backup is recommended in these cases, I haven't taken one yet when

Re: expanding a luks volume

2010-01-24 Thread Alex Samad
On Sun, Jan 24, 2010 at 08:17:32PM +1100, Alex Samad wrote: > On Sat, Jan 23, 2010 at 09:56:11PM -0500, Tim Tebbit wrote: > > Alex Samad wrote: > > > Hi > > > [snip] > > > > > > Alex > > > > No not at all. Treat it as any other volume and simply extend it. > > I think you might have miss uder

Re: expanding a luks volume

2010-01-24 Thread Alex Samad
On Sat, Jan 23, 2010 at 09:56:11PM -0500, Tim Tebbit wrote: > Alex Samad wrote: > > Hi > > > > subject says it all I have a lv, which i have used luks to encrypt and > > now I would like to extend it. > > > > I am guessing the process is going to involve coping the files over to > > another parti

Re: expanding a luks volume

2010-01-23 Thread Tim Tebbit
Alex Samad wrote: > Hi > > subject says it all I have a lv, which i have used luks to encrypt and > now I would like to extend it. > > I am guessing the process is going to involve coping the files over to > another partition and then back again ? > > Alex No not at all. Treat it as any other v