I have an external drive with two partitions – one encrypted, the other not so.
I'd like to move all the data to the encrypted partition, and then resize it to take up the whole drive.
If I use gparted on a truecrypt-encrypted partition, will that destroy the data?
Otherwise I have to decrypt, merge, resize and then re-encrypt.
Best Answer
Gparted only knows about physical disks - a Truecrypt parition won't even show up in Gparted, unless perhaps the whole partition has been specified as a Truecrypt partition. Certainly containers don't appear.
There is no way to resize an exisiting truecrypt parition (there was a convoluted method that worked prior to version 6.3, but it no longer works in recent versions).
I think your only option is to move your data to another volume, format your drive and Truecrypt it, then copy your data on to the newly created Truecrypt drive.