All of lore.kernel.org
 help / color / mirror / Atom feed
From: Milan Broz <mbroz@redhat.com>
To: Moji <lordmoji@gmail.com>
Cc: dm-crypt@saout.de, donotdisturb@gmx.net
Subject: Re: [dm-crypt] dynamic growing volume
Date: Wed, 09 Sep 2009 08:58:56 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4AA75230.4080108@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4AA6A19A.8000207@gmail.com>

Moji wrote:
> If you create LVM OVER encrypted LUKS partitions, you should be able to
> use the LVM/FS commands to re-size a volume as you normally would.
> 
> This also breaks up the encryption by using different master keys for
> each partition.

You probably want to create LUKS over LV (LUKS over LVM) and after normal
LVM resize just issue cryptsetup resize.

(one day LVM will support manipulation with encrypted volumes directly)

>> is it possible to create a dynamic growing crypted volume ?
>> i know that its possible with lvm and xfs..
>> but im not sure what happens if its crypted

Milan
--
mbroz@redhat.com

  parent reply	other threads:[~2009-09-09  6:59 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-09-08 16:41 [dm-crypt] dynamic growing volume donotdisturb
2009-09-08 18:25 ` Moji
2009-09-08 18:29   ` donotdisturb
2009-09-09  6:58   ` Milan Broz [this message]
2009-09-10  4:42     ` solarflow99

Reply instructions:

You may reply publicly to this message via plain-text email
using any one of the following methods:

* Save the following mbox file, import it into your mail client,
  and reply-to-all from there: mbox

  Avoid top-posting and favor interleaved quoting:
  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Posting_style#Interleaved_style

* Reply using the --to, --cc, and --in-reply-to
  switches of git-send-email(1):

  git send-email \
    --in-reply-to=4AA75230.4080108@redhat.com \
    --to=mbroz@redhat.com \
    --cc=dm-crypt@saout.de \
    --cc=donotdisturb@gmx.net \
    --cc=lordmoji@gmail.com \
    /path/to/YOUR_REPLY

  https://kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/docs/git-send-email.html

* If your mail client supports setting the In-Reply-To header
  via mailto: links, try the mailto: link
Be sure your reply has a Subject: header at the top and a blank line before the message body.
This is an external index of several public inboxes,
see mirroring instructions on how to clone and mirror
all data and code used by this external index.