Hi!
I recently upgraded from a 500GB SSD (860 EVO) to a 1TB SSD (a 960 Evo). My friend @Tedster took me through the process of using Clonezilla to copy my Pop!_OS (Ubuntu 19.10) install over to the new drive, and it all seemed fine. He then had me use GParted to move the swap partition to the end of the drive and resize the main partition (root, /home …) to use all of the additional available space.
However, I used LUKS, and set it up during the OS’ installation.
The new partition size is recognized in some cases but not others, or is recognized but not meaningful:
My friend warned me about this when I first installed the system (and did reinstalls as I found I needed to do), then warned me again that moving and resizing an encrypted volume was a bad idea, but I didn’t care. Here’s the partition setup as shown in GNOME Disks:
I just want to be able to use all of the space my new drive has afforded me; please give me advice on how to do so without needing to reinstall if possible (:
Thanks for replying to the post I made him make so I wouldn’t need to be dragged into this! (See where that got me…)
Through GParted, I would assume we managed to achieve complete Step 4: the logical volume has been expanded, as seen in the GNOME Disks screenshot (unless I’m not understanding?)
The system is indeed mounted - he’s running the machine from it.
Would this mean that step 5 should be attempted (of course with a full physical device backup beforehand)?
Checking the filesystem, in my case: xfs_growfs /home/
Step 1 will tell you if you have resized the Physical Volume (in this case decrypted volume)
Step 2 will tell you if you have resized the Logical Volume (I am almost certain it was not resized. You do not grow all LVs when you increase PV)
Step 3 will change the actual file-system.
Apologies that it’s been about a month so this might be kinda-sorta necroposting.
Anyway, I just got the chance to figure it out for him on a live instance, and he’s told me that it appears to be working.
Running fsck is kinda scary when it’s on someone else’s machine and you don’t know what you’re doing.
Again again, thanks for your assistance, and apologies that it’s taken a while for your advice here to be of use.