Here’s what I did: I bought a new 512 GB SSD to replace my old 256 GB SSD, which was getting full. I put the new SSD in an NVME to USB adapter and then booted to a Fedora 38 live USB and cloned the old drive into the new drive using dd if=/dev/nvme0n1 of=/dev/sda
. Then I used gparted
to expand the LUKS partition to cover the rest of the disk. I did not have to unlock the encryption for this. After that, I powered off, removed the 256 GB SSD and installed the 512 GB SSD, then booted normally. I did not erase either of the SSDs.
Now when I get into Fedora 38, GNOME Disks reports that /dev/mapper/luks-5e5f911c...
is a 511 GB ext4 partition with 80 GB free, and /dev/nvme0n1p3
is a 511 GB LUKSv2 partition, but when I run df
, this is what I see:
nate@redgate:~$ df / -h
Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on
/dev/mapper/luks-5e5f911c... 233G 159G 63G 72% /
What did I do wrong?
I figured it out. I need to run
resize2fs
afterwards. I ransudo resize2fs /dev/mapper/luks-5e5f911c...
and that solved the issue.🎉 what Linux at home is all about
Well, not really. Someone on Reddit told me the solution.
Still counts 😹 software is all made by people after all, sometimes you just have to learn from others
KDE’s partition manager can resize LUKS partitions and the file systems inside of them. Be sure to have a back up (which it sounds like your old SSD is already).
Edit: Oh, nm, you already figured it out. :)
What does
lsblk
show? You might have to resize the ext4 filesystem as well as the luks volume.Resizing the filesystem with
resize2fs
solved the issue.