Can't resize encrypted /home in LVM

[njaimo]

Hi there,

Recently installed Fedora 14 64 bit on a hardware RAID 1 from distro DVD, and set up an LVM with an encrypted /home partition. I now need to resize (enlarge) the /home partition and have not been able to do it due to system-config-lvm telling me:

"Logical volume is not mounted but is in use. Please close all applications using this device (eg iscsi)"

I have tried doing this logged in as user, and also as root. I've tried with a Live CD, but an additional problem there is that the Live does not recognize the hardware RAID and tells me I have the same /home partition in two devices, which are the two disks in the RAID array, and refuses to resize.

I found this link:
< https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Re...ptedPartitions >
which details a rather complex process to achieve what I want, but I am wondering if there is an easier way ?...

I am not very experienced and any help would be greatly appreciated.

-njaimo

PS... forgot to mention I have been able to successfully resize all other LV's within the LVM, so I am assuming it is the encryption that is causing the problem....

[japafi]

check if this of any help http://blog.gauner.org/blog/2010/01/...tition-on-lvm/

[njaimo]

Thank you japafi ! I will write that down for next time. Unfortunately I already re-installed F14 from scratch w/out an encrypted partition...

I think there shoudl be a "warning" somewhere in the Installation Guide that encryption makes LV's way harder to resize. I would have not done it had I known. There should also be some instructions on how to do this in the Storage Admin and User guides, right now there is no guidance whatsoever for encryption and LVM's...

Anyway, just a couple of suggestions for the Fedora Documentation team....

Otherwise I am happy as a clam with F14 !!! ...and speaking of clams, I found how to make ClamAV with Evolution to scan my incoming e-mails... hope it works when I get to implement it soon...

Regards !

-N