Hi, On Friday 12 Jul 2002 21:31, Christoph Kaminski wrote: > (Sorry for my English but I hope you can understand what I mean) Viel besser als mein deutsch! :-) > How can I make this encrypted partition smaller ? (I have created it > with SUSE 8.0 Yast , it's a blow_fish encrypted partition on Ext3) > Can I do it with GNU Parted ? I'm assuming it's set up something like: hda -> hda1 -> cryptoloop -> ext3 ie. the whole of hda1 is encrypted (device-backed loop), rather than having a filesystem on hda1 holding an encrypted file containing a filesystem (file-backed loop). You probably can do it with Parted. I've never used it, though, so I'm only guessing. Obviously, back up anything important before starting to mess around with the partition. You'll need to resize the ext3 filesystem in the loop device first. losetup the device, but don't mount it. Then use resize2fs on the loop device to reduce the size as required. (You might want to use fdisk or parted or whatever to find out the correct size to aim for - reduce the partition's size and see what it says the size will be, then exit _without_ saving the changes.) After resizing the FS, losetup -d the loop device. Then adjust the partition's size and create the swap partition. Then you just need to run mkswap and add the swap partition to fstab. I hope this has been some help to you... Regards, Stephen - Linux-crypto: cryptography in and on the Linux system Archive: http://mail.nl.linux.org/linux-crypto/
