Paul

Me hacking away at things.

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A default encrypted installation of standard distributions (manjaro, fedora, etc.) create LVM-LUKS volumes.

The process of resizing is easy.

  1. start live-cd system, e.g. gparted live-cd
  2. figure out LUKS partition (here we assume /dev/sdb1)
  3. decrypt volume: $ sudo cryptsetup open /dev/sdb1 cryptdisk
  4. use standard tools to resize partitions, e.g. gparted

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