Rog, Alternativly you could just mount a file rather then a physical device as your loopback/encrypted partition. This way you dont need to resize your existing partitions.
http://tldp.org/HOWTO/Loopback-Encrypted-Filesystem-HOWTO.html Hope this helps -- Dave Peters On Thu, Apr 22, 2004 at 04:49:30PM +1000, Roger Barnes wrote: > Hiyall, > > I've decided that I'm not pushing my luck enough by piling bleeding edge > technologies on top each other, and I want to try encrypting my ext3 > LVM2 /home partition with cryptoloop (on a 2.6.4 kernel). > > To achieve this, I belive I have to create a new logical volume (with an > encrypted filesystem of sorts) and copy the data across. And in order > to do this, I must first shrink my existing home volume to make room (I > have enough free space). Judging by a number of mailing list threads > I've seen, it appears that shrinking an ext3 partition on LVM2 is a > scary prospect (calculating block sizes, rebuilding journals and other > such strangeness). Has anyone had any experience with doing this (and > therfore advice), and more importantly, am I crazy for trying (no real > need actually exists to encrypt my filesystems, it's just cool)? :p > > I've read through the LVM howto (including its several recent updates), > and it doesn't provide a great deal of help. It seems that another > initial filesystem choice would have made things simpler. > > </ramble> > > Cheers, > - Rog > > -- > SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ > Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html > -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
