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Split LVM volume into two, Ubuntu Ibex 8.10

This worked for me, but use the "how to-guide" at your own risk!!!! I can not be held responsible for any data loss - take backup!!!

A standard Ubuntu installation with encrypted hard drive will give you a boot partition and a LVM partition with two logical volumes. If your computer name is “Ubuntu”, the volume group will typically be called Ubuntu, with two volumes: root and swap.

In order to make a logical volume for /home and for /, do the following: