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How to resize an encrypted LVM partition

The problem

You were dumb enough to give 15 GB space to / partition and /var gets full when firing more than one docker container.

Luckily you'd partitioned your disks using LVM, and have left 100 GB of free space just in case they were needed.

The solution

In a nutshell

  1. Open LUKS encrypted disk to view partitions
  2. Resize filesystem of mounted root (/) partition
  3. Extend logical volume of root (/) partition
  4. Close LUKS encrypted disk

In detail

TBD

References

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