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How do I resize a FileVault 2 encrypted partition?

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Running Mac OS X Lion. My current setup is a 250 GB partition, encrypted by FileVault2, for Lion. Old Snow Leopard install is in second half, another 250 GB partition, unencrypted, of the same disk. The Disk Utility GUI doesn't allow me to delete the Snow Leopard partition due to CoreStorage (FV2) …

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Core Storage versus resizing … Will I need to decrypt my Lion HD in order to resize it? … For 10.7 (Build 11A511): yes. Whether a future release of OS X will allow greater flexibility, I don't know. If you use diskutil to monitor backward conversion…

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