Live resize of root partition in case of "LUKS on LVM"

Asked Dec 16 '18 at 16:19

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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 implementations?

For the context this is what I have in my /etc/crypttab:

decrypted_root  /dev/vg_ubuntu/LV_crypted_root none luks

This is my /etc/fstab:

/dev/mapper/decrypted_root   /   ext4    errors=remount-ro 0       1

Here is what I did:

lvextend -L +10G /dev/vg_ubuntu/LV_crypted_root
cryptsetup resize decrypted_root
resize2fs /dev/mapper/decrypted_root

And now my overall question: What could possibly go wrong with this?

asked Dec 16 '18 at 16:19

user327144

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Possible duplicate of Extend a LUKS encrypted partition to fill disk as extending is not the problem: shrinking is as you need to unencrypt everything first. – Fabby Dec 16 '18 at 16:56
Growing should work exactly the way you describe, so it's unclear how to help. Any error messages to go with that? Verify the size of the block devices with blockdev --getsize64 or similar? – frostschutz Dec 16 '18 at 17:02

Live resize of root partition in case of "LUKS on LVM"

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