<p dir="ltr">I would do a fresh install to new drive, put old drive in spare bay or external case, unlock and then rsync or cp home data and configs. If old drive is fully updated first the final sync is mostly just user data.</p>
<div class="gmail_quote">On Dec 7, 2013 11:19 AM, "Phil Turmel" <<a href="mailto:philip@turmel.org">philip@turmel.org</a>> wrote:<br type="attribution"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
On 12/07/2013 10:48 AM, Edward Holcroft wrote:<br>
> Hi all<br>
><br>
> On Ubuntu 13.10. Got an encrypted 1TB drive using LVM. This machine was<br>
> installed with full disk encryption and requires a password at boot time. I<br>
> need to upgrade to a 2TB drive (actually I don't need to, I just want to).<br>
><br>
> From what I have found there is no easy way around this e.g.<br>
><br>
> <a href="https://help.ubuntu.com/community/ResizeEncryptedPartitions" target="_blank">https://help.ubuntu.com/community/ResizeEncryptedPartitions</a><br>
> <a href="http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=726724" target="_blank">http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=726724</a><br>
> <a href="http://askubuntu.com/questions/245112/can-i-disable-full-disk-encryption" target="_blank">http://askubuntu.com/questions/245112/can-i-disable-full-disk-encryption</a><br>
><br>
> Has anyone faced this before. So far I have created a disk image of my<br>
> encrypted 1TB drive and placed it on a 2TB drive. Took 18 hours. I thought<br>
> I would simply use gparted to increase the size, well that, as I now know,<br>
> is not possible. So I thought I could "just" decrypt the volume, dd it to<br>
> the larger drive and re-encrypt. It's not that simple. You cannot "just"<br>
> remove full disk encryption.<br>
<br>
It would help if you could post a more detailed report of your current<br>
disk / partition / LVM / volume layout. "lsdrv" [1] or "lsblk --tree".<br>
<br>
> I'm starting to think (and many of the articles suggest this) the fastest<br>
> method would be a fresh installation on the new 2TB drive, unless anyone<br>
> here can tell me some clever method that will be quicker or easier.<br>
><br>
> Even using the instructions I have, the very first step is a puzzler for me:<br>
><br>
> <a href="http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=726724" target="_blank">http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=726724</a><br>
><br>
> "1. Boot a live CD and, using any tool, create a new partition, lets call<br>
> it /dev/sda6 , next to and to the left of (after) your crypt."<br>
><br>
> How can I create a new partition to the left of my crypt when that space is<br>
> already allocated to the boot partition? I have plenty of space open to the<br>
> right of my crypt.<br>
<br>
They were confused: "left of (after)". I would presume they meant<br>
"right of (after)".<br>
<br>
I don't use ubuntu myself, so I would normally recommend using<br>
SystemRescueCD for the procedures involved (lvm and cryptsetup are<br>
already present).<br>
<br>
Phil<br>
<br>
[1] <a href="http://github.com/pturmel/lsdrv" target="_blank">http://github.com/pturmel/lsdrv</a><br>
<br>
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