From: Yves-Alexis Perez <corsac@corsac.net>
To: dm-crypt@saout.de
Subject: Re: [dm-crypt] cryptsetup FAQ montly posting 8/2011
Date: Tue, 02 Aug 2011 09:35:44 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1312270544.22484.24.camel@scapa> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20110801235305.GA4857@tansi.org>
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On mar., 2011-08-02 at 01:53 +0200, Arno Wagner wrote:
>
> * Can I resize a dm-crypt or LUKS partition?
>
> Yes, you can, as neither dm-crypt nor LUKS stores partition size.
> Whether you should is a different question. Personally I recommend
> backup, recreation of the encrypted partition with new size,
> recreation of the filesystem and restore. This gets around the
> tricky business of resizing the filesystem. Resizing a dm-crypt or
> LUKS container does not resize the filesystem in it. The backup is
> really non-optional here, as a lot can go wrong, resulting in
> partial or complete data loss. Using something like gparted to
> resize an encrypted partition is slow, but typicaly works. This
> will not change the size of the filesystem hidden under the
> encryption though.
>
> You also need to be aware of size-based limitations. The one
> currently relevant is that aes-xts-plain should not be used for
> encrypted container sizes larger than 2TiB. Use aes-xts-plain64
> for that.
It might be worth mentioning LVM setups for this?
What I do is (exactly like the Debian installer “setup encrypted LVM”
does):
- /dev/sda1 = /boot
- /dev/sda2 -> dm-crypt -> /dev/mapper/sda2_crypt
- /dev/mapper/sda2_crypt = physical volume for LVM
then create a volume group in /dev/mapper/sda2_crypt and logical volumes
in there. My advice would be to not use the full volume group space (I
usually do 10G for /, 10G for /home and 1-2G for swap), then you can
lvextend and resize2fs the stuff. Encryption doesn't get in the way.
Regards,
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Yves-Alexis
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2011-08-01 23:53 [dm-crypt] cryptsetup FAQ montly posting 8/2011 Arno Wagner
2011-08-02 7:35 ` Yves-Alexis Perez [this message]
2011-08-02 9:00 ` Arno Wagner
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