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nox2

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Registered: 2019-03-21

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Can I unencrypt LVM?

Hi,

I would like to go back to Windows10 but I cannot zap my whole drive because in my /home partition I have stuff important to me, too much of it to put it on a flash drive.

Can I shrink encrypted LVM, create a plain fat32 partition outside of it and then mount in back into Arch?

I tried to ask on stackoverflow, superuser, msdn and reddit, but well nothing, so please.

WorMzy

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Re: Can I unencrypt LVM?

What is 'encrypted LVM'? Do you mean LVM on LUKS? Describe your setup as it is now, in as much detail as you can.

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nox2

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Registered: 2019-03-21

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Re: Can I unencrypt LVM?

I have a small efi and boot partition then luks LVM with root and home partition in it

nox2

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Re: Can I unencrypt LVM?

sda                 8:0    0 465.8G  0 disk 
├─sda1              8:1    0   256M  0 part 
├─sda2              8:2    0   384M  0 part  /boot
└─sda3              8:3    0 465.1G  0 part 
  └─vg0           254:0    0 465.1G  0 crypt
    ├─vg0-lv_root 254:1    0    35G  0 lvm   /
    └─vg0-lv_home 254:2    0 430.1G  0 lvm   /home
➜  ~

nl6720

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Re: Can I unencrypt LVM?

There's https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Re … VM-on-LUKS. I have never tried it so I'm not going to claim that it works.

Last edited by nl6720 (2019-03-21 11:32:25)

nox2

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Registered: 2019-03-21

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Re: Can I unencrypt LVM?

way too many setup specific steps to work on arch, I am probably just going to chroot-murder my system, at least it dies in sleep

Last edited by nox2 (2019-03-21 11:36:22)

nox2

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Re: Can I unencrypt LVM?

Yep, RIP. At least I know now.