Quereller, 1 year ago

I am, currently still using LVM (logical volume manager) with LUKS (harddisk encryption) under Ubuntu. Running low on space, my idea was to add an additional NVMe and add the space to the existing logical volume. Now, I think I did nothing wrong and there is really a bug somewhere in the creation of the initial ramdisc. Fact was it would not decrypt the new drive and I was now basically missing half of the / volume. To fix the initrd, I had to boot from the life-system and manually unlock, discover and mount the various physical and logical volumes. I finally managed to changeroot into the system so I could rebuild the initrd. All this action was something of the most complicated I had to do with Linux. After rebooting and praying everything worked as it should have from the start.