Hello, I tried to shrink a luks partition using these instructions: http://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/41091/how-can-i-shrink-a-luks-partition-what-does-cryptsetup-resize-do but it failed. in the answer on that page it gives the following commands: # parted /dev/sda2 ... (parted) rm 2 (parted) mkpart Everything 250035s 124844158s this last command failed with me: Instead of a name (Everything) the mkpart command wanted (extended/primary). So I made the partition the way I remembered them to be. gparted now shows : http://i998.photobucket.com/albums/af104/ditisnietmijnnaam/gparted_zps85ed6ad9.png when I rebooted, I got this error: alert /dev/mapper/vg-mint-root does not exist dropping to shell (I cant the remember the exact message and names, so it might be off a little) Using an ubuntu live usb I could get some following information. The luks authentication seems to be working: ~$ sudo cryptsetup luksOpen /dev/sda5 partName Enter passphrase for /dev/sda5: ~$ sudo cryptsetup status partName /dev/mapper/partName is active. type: LUKS1 cipher: aes-xts-plain64 keysize: 512 bits device: /dev/sda5 offset: 4096 sectors size: 1743302656 sectors mode: read/write There was a (fully updated) linux mint 15 installation on that partition. Can any of it be recovered? Thanks in advance and best regards, dinmn P.S. some extra info: sda3 in the picture did not exist; the mint partition covered the entire hard drive. I wanted to shrink it to install windows beside my main OS. sda3 now temporarily has ubunt 13.04 installed on it. _______________________________________________ dm-crypt mailing list dm-crypt@xxxxxxxx http://www.saout.de/mailman/listinfo/dm-crypt
