Dev1 Galaxy Forum / Regarding FDE - /Boot and gparted in vms, reason why its in OT below:

Re: Regarding FDE - /Boot and gparted in vms, reason why its in OT below:

dummy@example.com (zapper) — Sun, 07 May 2023 03:07:14 +0000

xinomilo wrote:

nor sure i understand. so you want to resize luks partition? other partition? there's only one partition?
you can't disable luks temporarily. there are ways to disable completely (under certain circumstances) but not temporarily.
but you can resize luks partition like any other one. involves a few extra steps, but not impossible.
btw, you can use nbd mount for qcow2 image, and gparted on that afterwards.

That would probably also work. Thanks

Re: Regarding FDE - /Boot and gparted in vms, reason why its in OT below:

dummy@example.com (xinomilo) — Fri, 05 May 2023 08:41:03 +0000

nor sure i understand. so you want to resize luks partition? other partition? there's only one partition?

you can't disable luks temporarily. there are ways to disable completely (under certain circumstances) but not temporarily.
but you can resize luks partition like any other one. involves a few extra steps, but not impossible.

btw, you can use nbd mount for qcow2 image, and gparted on that afterwards.

Re: Regarding FDE - /Boot and gparted in vms, reason why its in OT below:

dummy@example.com (nahkhiirmees) — Thu, 04 May 2023 19:30:53 +0000

For some reason "man crypsetup" sounds like a good idea in that situation. Or at least i don't think that gparted is the right tool. If i remember correctly there may be some options(with command cryptsetup) which have something to do with resizing.

Regarding FDE - /Boot and gparted in vms, reason why its in OT below:

dummy@example.com (zapper) — Fri, 03 Feb 2023 22:23:18 +0000

I only posted this here, because of one thing specifically, its because I am speaking of doing this with regards to Hyperbola.

Does anyone know how to use gparted, or gpart to disable encryption temporarily in luks, so I can resize the vm, but without increasing the size on the physical disk but make sure that it is available in the virtual disk.

Right now for example, I have a qcow2 that uses 8.4GB but, it has 118GB virtual disk size in it.

Reason being, I want to be able to copy the qcow2 to disk whenever needed without any annoying problems, of space getting used up too much.

I also wanted to make a few variants of it.

200GB

465GB/476GB

954GB

and still have the 118GB of course.

The non used space though, I don't want to take up physical space on disk though.