Re: How to enlarge LUKS partition ?
On Mon, 20 Aug 2012 17:20:41 +0200
Jochen Spieker <ml@well-adjusted.de> wrote:
> J. B:
> >
> > 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.
>
> You should be able to use any partitioning tool. AFAIK, gparted tries
> not only to resize the partition, but containers and filesystems as
> well. Without support for LVM, it apparently doesn't even try to resize
> at least the partition.
>
> > How can I increase sda2, so that I can later execute cryptsetup resize ?
>
> I'd use parted (without being a big friend of its interface).
>
> J.
Hi J,
no luck with parted. It throws error "couldn't detect filesystem"
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