Re: Shrinking encrypted LVM partition

2011-07-20 Thread Aidan Gauland
Aaron Toponce writes: > 6) Shrink the partition of /dev/sda5 using fdisk(8) or parted(8) I've run into trouble at this step: when I try to resize the partition with parted, it complains that it "could not detect file system," and refuses to do touch the disk. fdisk does not seem to be able t

Re: Shrinking encrypted LVM partition

2011-07-13 Thread Aidan Gauland
Aaron Toponce writes: > I have gathered that /dev/sda1 is mounted on /boot, and /dev/sda5 is a > physical volume. With that, how many logical volumes do you have from that > volume group, and where are they mounted? Are you using LUKS for your > encrypted volumes? I have / and /home as LVM volum

Shrinking encrypted LVM partition

2011-07-13 Thread Aidan Gauland
Hello everyone, I have to make room on my hard drive for another operating system on my hard disk. I currently have /boot on sda1, encrypted LVM on sda5 (which, I think, an extended partition); this was set up by the installer. I just want to install the other OS on a primary partition, instead