Re: Shrinking encrypted LVM partition

[Aidan Gauland <aidalgol@no8wireless.co.nz>]

Aaron Toponce <aaron.toponce@gmail.com> 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 volumes.  I don't have each volume encrypted
separately; sda5 is an encrypted partition, and LVM is on top of that.

> The general order of the steps you will be taking is this:
>
>     0) BACKUP ALL DATA
>     1) Find the logical volume(s) with the most space you can give up
>     2) Reduce the filesystem of each logical volume to the desired size
>        with resize2fs(8) (assuming it's an ext-based filesystem)
>     3) Reduce each logical volume with lvreduce(8)
>     4) Reduce each encrypted filesystem with cryptsetup(8) (assuming you're
>        using LUKS)
>
> [snip]

Great, thanks for that!  I'll try following your instructions this
weekend.

Thanks,
Aidan Gauland