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Align a partition on a hard disk
New disks need to be prepared for use. When using a hardware raid like explained in Create hardware raid on HP via hpacucli some partitioning tools even show an error message. To prepare a disk for use, the disk needs … Continue reading
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Tagged align, parted, partitioning, properly aligned
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Increase the size of a LUKS encrypted partition
Even encrypted discs or partitions sometimes need to have their size increased. A LUKS encrypted volume consists of different layers which all need to be resized. To resize an encrypted volume, multiple steps have to be performed to use the additional … Continue reading
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Tagged cryptsetup, encryption, luks, parted, partitioning, resize
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