Re: Shrinking encrypted LVM partition
Aaron Toponce <aaron.toponce@gmail.com> 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 to resize
partitions, so I tried cfdisk, which quit as soon as I ran it on
/dev/sda1 with the "FATAL ERROR: Bad primary partition 1: Partition ends
in the final partial cylinder.
I have not touched the partition table and can still boot into my
system, so the disk appears to be just fine, and the partition table was
set up by the Debian (squeeze) installer and has not been touched since,
so I don't know what cfdisk is on about.
Here's the partition table of sda...
# fdisk -cu /dev/sda
Command (m for help): p
Disk /dev/sda: 320.1 GB, 320072933376 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 38913 cylinders, total 625142448 sectors
Units = sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes
Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
Disk identifier: 0x0002f08e
Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/sda1 * 2048 499711 248832 83 Linux
/dev/sda2 501758 625141759 312320001 5 Extended
/dev/sda5 501760 625141759 312320000 83 Linux
How should I proceed from here?
--Aidan
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