jay-7
November 13th, 2019, 08:40 PM
After deleting my windows partition, I have a complicated disk setup as follows:
Unallocate space 34 GB
/dev/sda3 <extended partition that contains my entire linux setup>
/dev/sda5 ext4 <boot> 300 MB
/dev/sda6 cryptsetup decrypted at boot partition, which has LVM inside for my swap and root partitions as follows.
summetj@witchblade:~$ sudo pvs
PV VG Fmt Attr PSize PFree
/dev/mapper/crypt6 vgpool lvm2 a-- 197.62g 0
summetj@witchblade:~$ sudo vgs
VG #PV #LV #SN Attr VSize VFree
vgpool 1 2 0 wz--n- 197.62g 0
summetj@witchblade:~$ sudo lvs
LV VG Attr LSize Pool Origin Data% Meta% Move Log Cpy%Sync Convert
root vgpool -wi-ao---- 194.62g
swap vgpool -wi-ao---- 3.00g
I would like to absorb the unallocated 34 GB freed up from deleting my windows partition into the root logical volume inside the /dev/sda6 cryptsetup encrypted partition, which is inside the /dev/sda3 physical partition..... see the fun I'm attempting?
[If you want to see how I got into this situation in the first place, see https://www.summet.com/blog/2016/11/26/installing-an-encrypted-partition-with-lvm-dual-boot-on-ubuntu-16-04/ ]
It seems to me that I SHOULD be able to do something along the lines of:
1. Expand the /dev/sda3 physical partition to take up the entire drive, including unallocated space.
2. Move the /dev/sda5 boot partition to the top of the newly enlarged /ev/sda3 physical partition.
2a. re-run update-grub to re-link to the right disk sectors for booting....
3. Enlarge /dev/sda6 (the encrypted virtual partition) to take advantage of the extra space in /dev/sda3
4. Either enlarge my PV, or add a 2nd PV inside /dev/sda6 to the VG
5. Enlarge the VG/ LV root.
Steps 3,4,5 are conceptually possible, but I don't know the commands / options to do them, and was wondering if anybody who did a lot of work with both encrypted parttions and LVM could give me some pointers (or tell me it isn't possible....)
[The other option is to blow everything away and use Ubuntu's full disk LVM install option and then restore from backups...but why copy all of that data if I don't have to, right?]
Thanks,
Jay
Unallocate space 34 GB
/dev/sda3 <extended partition that contains my entire linux setup>
/dev/sda5 ext4 <boot> 300 MB
/dev/sda6 cryptsetup decrypted at boot partition, which has LVM inside for my swap and root partitions as follows.
summetj@witchblade:~$ sudo pvs
PV VG Fmt Attr PSize PFree
/dev/mapper/crypt6 vgpool lvm2 a-- 197.62g 0
summetj@witchblade:~$ sudo vgs
VG #PV #LV #SN Attr VSize VFree
vgpool 1 2 0 wz--n- 197.62g 0
summetj@witchblade:~$ sudo lvs
LV VG Attr LSize Pool Origin Data% Meta% Move Log Cpy%Sync Convert
root vgpool -wi-ao---- 194.62g
swap vgpool -wi-ao---- 3.00g
I would like to absorb the unallocated 34 GB freed up from deleting my windows partition into the root logical volume inside the /dev/sda6 cryptsetup encrypted partition, which is inside the /dev/sda3 physical partition..... see the fun I'm attempting?
[If you want to see how I got into this situation in the first place, see https://www.summet.com/blog/2016/11/26/installing-an-encrypted-partition-with-lvm-dual-boot-on-ubuntu-16-04/ ]
It seems to me that I SHOULD be able to do something along the lines of:
1. Expand the /dev/sda3 physical partition to take up the entire drive, including unallocated space.
2. Move the /dev/sda5 boot partition to the top of the newly enlarged /ev/sda3 physical partition.
2a. re-run update-grub to re-link to the right disk sectors for booting....
3. Enlarge /dev/sda6 (the encrypted virtual partition) to take advantage of the extra space in /dev/sda3
4. Either enlarge my PV, or add a 2nd PV inside /dev/sda6 to the VG
5. Enlarge the VG/ LV root.
Steps 3,4,5 are conceptually possible, but I don't know the commands / options to do them, and was wondering if anybody who did a lot of work with both encrypted parttions and LVM could give me some pointers (or tell me it isn't possible....)
[The other option is to blow everything away and use Ubuntu's full disk LVM install option and then restore from backups...but why copy all of that data if I don't have to, right?]
Thanks,
Jay