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Having read about the pros and cons of "LUKS on LVM" vs "LVM on LUKS" I came to the conclusion that "LUKS on LVM" does not provide live resize. But why? And is this even true as of todays ...
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I have an encrypted LV. lvcreate -n data -L500G vg cryptsetup luksFormat vg-data My vg is not fully used. data uses just 500GB out of 2TB. Now I like to extend vg-data. Can I do this my simple ...
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Is there a command to recover/undelete deleted files by rm? rm -rf /path/to/myfile How can I recover myfile? If there is a tool to do this, how can I use it?
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I want to resize an LVM partition (specifically, I want to increase the root / mount and decrease the /home), because I am running low on disk space on one virtual partition.  Now people say LVM has ...
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I have a laptop with Arch on it, and I sized the root partition too small. Now I want to expand the partition by taking some from the home partition. I will put the details of the specifics below. My ...
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I just tried to increase encrypted LVM partition. The proceduce is: Extend the partition with fdisk -> Resize PV -> Resize LV -> Increase size file system. Detail steps in https://www.thegeekdiary....
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I'm trying to use the full space available on my HDD (1TB, migrating from 500GB HDD).My partition is encrypted (LUKS). I tried based on this, however lvresize seems to be not extending my partition ...
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My encrypted partition is full. How can I extend it step by step please?
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I know I can just create a new and larger luksencrypted container and copy the contents from the previous luks container to the new one, but is there a way to enlarge a luks encrypted container (luks....
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I have a system using luks encryption and I want to extend the system partition. Seems to look like Extend a LUKS encrypted partition to fill disk, but a bit different. Because my physical disk seems ...
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