Merge LUKS-partition with partition on another HDD
I just bought a 2 TB hard disk because the home partition on the old one is almost full.
What I want to do is to extend the home partition on hard disk 1 (sda2) to also include all the space on the new hard disk (sdb1). This seemed rather straight forward at first, however there's one issue. My home-partition is LUKS-encrypted.
How do I extend sda2 to also span over sdb1 and act as one single partition? My initial thought was to create a logical volume (merging sda2 and sdb1), however I wasn't able to find a guide with a scenario like my own. Any ideas?
fdisk -l output:
Disk /dev/sda: 1000.2 GB, 1000204886016 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 121601 cylinders, total 1953525168 sectors
Units = sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes
Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
Disk identifier: 0x0c000236
Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/sda1 * 2048 204802047 102400000 7 HPFS/NTFS/exFAT
/dev/sda2 204802048 1953525167 874361560 83 Linux
Disk /dev/sdd: 2000.4 GB, 2000398934016 bytes
81 heads, 63 sectors/track, 765633 cylinders, total 3907029168 sectors
Units = sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes
Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 4096 bytes
I/O size (minimum/optimal): 4096 bytes / 4096 bytes
Disk identifier: 0x12e102fd
Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/sdb1 2048 3907029167 1953513560 83 Linux
Disk /dev/mapper/sda2_crypt: 895.3 GB, 895345184768 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 108852 cylinders, total 1748721064 sectors
Units = sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes
Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
Disk identifier: 0x00000000
Disk /dev/mapper/sda2_crypt doesn't contain a valid partition table
- You would need to create a luks partition on the second disk - How to create an encrypted partition?
- Ensure both the luks partition have the same passwd - How to change LUKS passphrase?
- This should allow you to automount the second patition with a single passphrase - Full Disk Encryption with LUKS: auto mount second volume
- Create a PV on the second and merge it with the first - How can I create one logical volume over two disks using LVM?