-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Hi Sven and Hendrik! > create an additional logical volume using all free extend. > Fill it with random data > release the extends again and grow the actual volume ... I also thought of that. Doable. > Another simple way: enlarge the volume normally and then fill it up > with dummy files (in the simplest case, use dd if=/dev/zero > of=dummyfile) until it is absolutely full. That sounds great! Didn't think of that one. Simple and it must be pretty fast, too. This could even become the recommended way to initialize a LUKS partition after creation, instead of filling it with urandom beforehand. kind regards for your solutions, Wolfgang -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.2.1 (MingW32) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFJ6MMMR6b2EdogPFsRAg5+AJ9Cum+pwL0t96DFqcjBn90GOS6UfgCfVtrw UcDeRx9rlwbiztUUKL8guVs= =njF1 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --------------------------------------------------------------------- dm-crypt mailing list - http://www.saout.de/misc/dm-crypt/ To unsubscribe, e-mail: dm-crypt-unsubscribe@xxxxxxxx For additional commands, e-mail: dm-crypt-help@xxxxxxxx