Re: [arch-general] Installation: How to get HDD > LUKS > GPT working in a clean way

Hi Paul, > If another opinion helps, I've done some funky disk layouts at various > times, and I also think that if you need partitioning above the LUKS layer, > you'd do better to use LVM than GPT. GPT is intended to be used at the > lowest level of the stack, whereas LVM is well-supported at

Re: [arch-general] Installation: How to get HDD > LUKS > GPT working in a clean way

On 2 December 2016 at 22:29, Merlin Büge wrote: >> Personally, I'd rather modify the start-up process a tiny bit so that >> GPT inside LUKS gets parsed. I just try to strip off unnecessary >> 'overhead' / layers of my system. > If you have 8 GiB or more and not hibernating,

Re: [arch-general] Installation: How to get HDD > LUKS > GPT working in a clean way

Hi, > > Hm. I can see your points. But I don't need the flexibility LVM provides, > > I have enough flexibility through Btrfs. > > And yeah, it's readily automated, and that's indeed practical for many > > people. Personally, I'd rather modify the start-up process a tiny bit > > so that GPT

Re: [arch-general] Installation: How to get HDD > LUKS > GPT working in a clean way

On 11/27/2016 08:18 PM, Merlin Büge wrote: Where is /boot physically located? Can grub2 boot from LV these days? /boot is physically located on my only storage drive in the laptop. It's not a seperate partition, just on the Btrfs filesystem. Can grub2 boot from LV these days? I don't know

Re: [arch-general] Installation: How to get HDD > LUKS > GPT working in a clean way

On 11/27/2016 08:09 PM, Merlin Büge wrote: Hi Yaro, thanks for your answer! I'd set up two partitions: Your EFI system partition and the LUKS container. Then inside LUKS, format the whole thing as LVM and then set up from there, rather than make the LUKS container another GPT "disk." Then

Re: [arch-general] Installation: How to get HDD > LUKS > GPT working in a clean way

Hi, > On Sun, Nov 27, 2016 at 04:48:18PM +0100, Merlin Büge wrote: > > I'm currently installing Arch on my laptop (Thinkpad T400), and have decided > > for a rather unusual partition scheme: A single LUKS container directly on > > the disk (SSD) with a GPT partition table and two partitions

Re: [arch-general] Installation: How to get HDD > LUKS > GPT working in a clean way

Hi Yaro, thanks for your answer! > I'd set up two partitions: Your EFI system partition and the LUKS > container. Then inside LUKS, format the whole thing as LVM and then set > up from there, rather than make the LUKS container another GPT "disk." > Then you just use the crypt and lvm2

Re: [arch-general] Installation: How to get HDD > LUKS > GPT working in a clean way

On Sun, Nov 27, 2016 at 04:48:18PM +0100, Merlin Büge wrote: > I'm currently installing Arch on my laptop (Thinkpad T400), and have decided > for a rather unusual partition scheme: A single LUKS container directly on > the disk (SSD) with a GPT partition table and two partitions inside it: one >

Re: [arch-general] Installation: How to get HDD > LUKS > GPT working in a clean way

On Sun, Nov 27, 2016 at 09:43:57PM +0100, Merlin Büge wrote: > > (2) The same thing you're trying to do but with LVM instead of a GPT table > > I don't need any LVM functionality and would consider it a little bit overkill > for just dividing available space into two partitions. I completely

Re: [arch-general] Installation: How to get HDD > LUKS > GPT working in a clean way

Hi, > > I'm currently installing Arch on my laptop (Thinkpad T400), and have decided > > for a rather unusual partition scheme: A single LUKS container directly on > > the disk (SSD) with a GPT partition table and two partitions inside it: one > > for > > SWAP, the other one for the system and

Re: [arch-general] Installation: How to get HDD > LUKS > GPT working in a clean way

On 11/27/2016 09:48 AM, Merlin Büge wrote: Hey everybody! I'm currently installing Arch on my laptop (Thinkpad T400), and have decided for a rather unusual partition scheme: A single LUKS container directly on the disk (SSD) with a GPT partition table and two partitions inside it: one for

Re: [arch-general] Installation: How to get HDD > LUKS > GPT working in a clean way

On Sun, Nov 27, 2016 at 04:48:18PM +0100, Merlin Büge wrote: > Hey everybody! > > > I'm currently installing Arch on my laptop (Thinkpad T400), and have decided > for a rather unusual partition scheme: A single LUKS container directly on > the disk (SSD) with a GPT partition table and two

[arch-general] Installation: How to get HDD > LUKS > GPT working in a clean way

Hey everybody! I'm currently installing Arch on my laptop (Thinkpad T400), and have decided for a rather unusual partition scheme: A single LUKS container directly on the disk (SSD) with a GPT partition table and two partitions inside it: one for SWAP, the other one for the system and everyting