Hello Pau, [email protected] (Pau Amaro-Seoane), 2016.04.09 (Sat) 12:01 (CEST): > Dear all: > > I prefer to use stable releases of OpenBSD and use a /home encrypted > and I was wondering whether it is possible to keep that partition from > release to release. I mean, I would like to avoid the work of > encrypting a huge partition every time that I update the OS.
If you use bsd.rd (install kernel downloaded and booted) and select "Upgrade" then your /home won't be newfs(8)ed. I have (on my single user notebook) /home unencrypted, my users home dir encrypted but just 1GB and a user/data mount with the big one. This way you get quick access to your home dir when fsck(8) has to be run. How do you unlock your encrypted /home before log in? How do you fsck your encrypted /home before log in? How do you mount your encrypted /home before log in? > I have seen this web page: > http://<notrepeated>.com/posts/openbsd-workstation.html > and I was wondering whether I could follow this to keep a separate partition. > > If this can be done, what would be the steps when I update to 6.0? I > would appreciate a dummy, step-by-step guide assuming that I am 5 > years old. See above. Use your OpenBSD installation to download bsd.rd of the version you want. Move it to /bsd.rd. Reboot, enter "boot bsd.rd" at the boot prompt. Follow the instructions. Select "Upgrade". > Another question I have is how to bind a key to xlock + zzz, so that I Which window manager? Stock fvwm? > can lock the screen before suspending, or how to force xlock to be run > after resuming. The indications give in that page are not working for > me. apmd(8) can run scripts on wakeup/resume/standby/... But what you might really want is -startCmd of xlock(1). What about your encrypted partition when suspending? Bye, Marcus > !DSPAM:5709220f224631214552904! _______________________________________________ Openbsd-newbies mailing list [email protected] http://mailman.theapt.org/listinfo/openbsd-newbies
