lvm2 on top of dm-crypt - how to add new hard disk

2013-08-21 Thread Luther Blissett
Hello folks, So I might better ask before attempting something stupid. I need to add a new hard drive to an encrypted debian box. The encryption scheme was set using debian installer defaults which resulted in just /dev/sda1 - /boot outside block device encryption. Everything else is encrypted

lvm2 on top of dm-crypt - how to add new hard disk

2013-08-21 Thread Luther Blissett
Hello folks, So I might better ask before attempting something stupid. I need to add a new hard drive to an encrypted debian box. The encryption scheme was set using debian installer defaults which resulted in just /dev/sda1 - /boot outside block device encryption. Everything else is encrypted

Re: lvm2 on top of dm-crypt - how to add new hard disk

2013-08-21 Thread Gregory Nowak
On Wed, Aug 21, 2013 at 12:19:40PM -0300, Luther Blissett wrote: My initial guess was that it should be possible to extend this encryption scheme to the new hard disk using standard lvm tools and the unencrypted open disk as physical volume to the already existing volume group. However, after