Piotr Synowiec
Piotr Synowiec
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Encrypting and creating volumes

Encrypting whole drive

    cryptsetup luksFormat --type luks2 /dev/sdb

Opening encrypted drive

    cryptsetup luksOpen /dev/sdb data

Volume management

    pvcreate /dev/mapper/data
    
    vgcreate vgdata /dev/mapper/data
    
    lvcreate -l 100%FREE -n data vgdata

Closing encrypted drive

    cryptsetup close data
    # if problemm occurs try below before closing 
    vgchange -a -n vgdata

Resizing

Resizing file system

    resizefs /dev/vgdata/data 200G

Resizing logical volume

    lvresize -L 200G /dev/vgdata/data