[ale] resizing Windoze bitlocker

[Chuck Payne]

On Mon, Dec 11, 2023 at 12:38 PM Bob Toxen via Ale <ale at ale.org> wrote:

> THANKS to Phil Turmel and  Chuck Payne for solving this for me!
>
> Yup, bitlocker is just an encrypted NTFS file system.  On my laptop (and
> probably most recent hardware) the M$
> "Trusted Computing" hardware is used to generate the encryption and
> decryption keys in a supposedly secure way.
> This is why you're not asked for a password to unlock the decryption key.
>
> I chose to use Windoze (and then take a shower) to turn off bitlocker.
> Windoze then will decrypt the files on
> the bitlocker partition that may take minutes or even hours.  Let Windoze
> continue running until it indicates
> that it's done or corruption will occur.  See the following for details:
>
>
> https://www.elevenforum.com/t/turn-on-or-off-device-encryption-in-windows-11.1424/#Two
>
> Now you can shrink the partition under either Windoze or using GParted
> either on a standalone bootable memory stick
> or GParted under Live Linux.  I chose to first try under Windows and to my
> surprise it shrank the partition as well
> as the partition itself.
>
> Installing Slackware Linux then was straightforward except ...
>
> On Sat, Dec 02, 2023 at 09:55:20AM -0500, Phil Turmel via Ale wrote:
> > Last time I encountered this, I had to shrink it from within windows.
>
> > On 12/1/23 22:09, Bob Toxen via Ale wrote:
> > > How can I shrink down a Windoze partition of type bitlocker?
> > > Latest GParted refuses to shrink it.  This is to make space on my new
> > > Lenovo Legion for Linux.
>
> > > Thanks,
> > > Bob
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I am glad I could help out. Great to see Slackware still gets love.

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