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Asked: 2016-03-08 15:52:49 +0800 CST

Shrink non-bootable LUKS LVM

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I'm importing a VMWare OVA whose second disk uses LUKS and configured to use 1TB of space, although its VMDK is only 30GB. I want to shrink this down. I am following the instructions here (https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Resizing_LVM-on-LUKS), but after I'm done, RHEL (the guest VM) sees the 1024GB partition, instead of the smaller version, and can't open it.

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1 Answers

  1. I ended up creating a new, smaller LUKS partition on a new virtual drive, copied the unencrypted contents to it, and auto-mounted it on boot instead of the old drive.

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