Return-Path: Received: from mail.saout.de ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (mail.saout.de [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id rM0IxF3qSx7v for ; Thu, 30 Jan 2014 17:08:52 +0100 (CET) Received: from mail.apartia.fr (mail.apartia.fr [178.63.80.89]) by mail.saout.de (Postfix) with ESMTP for ; Thu, 30 Jan 2014 17:08:52 +0100 (CET) Date: Thu, 30 Jan 2014 17:04:44 +0100 From: Louis-David Mitterrand Message-ID: <20140130160443.GA31280@apartia.fr> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Subject: [dm-crypt] moving/resizing a dm-crypt partition List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , To: dm-crypt@saout.de Hi, My linux system is on a dm-crypt volume with btrfs on /dev/sda6. As I just recovered 100GB from windows (/dev/sda5) I'd like to merge 5 and 6 to have a larger dm-crypt volume. Here is the disk layout: 1 2048 2050047 1000.0 MiB 2700 Basic data partition 2 2050048 2582527 260.0 MiB EF00 EFI system partition 3 2582528 4630527 1000.0 MiB 8300 Basic data partition 4 4630528 4892671 128.0 MiB 0C01 Microsoft reserved part 5 4892672 218167295 101.7 GiB 8300 Basic data partition 6 464865280 1000215182 255.3 GiB 8300 Linux filesystem What is the best strategy to acheive that? I'm thinking of booting a live cd, creating a new dm-crypt volume on 5, copy the system from 6 to 5, remove 6, resize partition 5, cryptfs resize 5, btrfs resize 5. Is there a better way? Thanks,