From what I've been reading, the guideline regarding manually changing the size of a Bitlocker encrypted partition is: (a) decrypt the partition. (b) resize the partition. (c) re-encrypt the partition.
Now, I'm wondering whether it's theoretically possible to resize a partition encrypted using Bitlocker (I specifically refer to Bitlocker utilizing software encryption, not hardware encryption, since this is the default and more secure option) without decrypting it first or would it render the partition unusable?