Re: Make fully encrypted disk without LVM during install

2012-04-05 Thread J.A. de Vries
Hi Jon, > Far worse: I have a 1TB external drive with a DOS partition table, one > partition formatted for LVM, with an LVM logical volume on top which is > part of an md RAID set, inside the RAID device is another LVM PV for a > different volume group. Your point is correct: it is far from > user

Re: Make fully encrypted disk without LVM during install

2012-04-05 Thread Jon Dowland
(Incidentally is your first name 'Jetse'?) On Wed, Apr 04, 2012 at 07:37:31PM +0200, J.A. de Vries wrote: > Ever tried to put a fully encrypted disk with LVM in another machine, without > booting from it? Far worse: I have a 1TB external drive with a DOS partition table, one partition formatted

Re: Make fully encrypted disk without LVM during install

2012-04-04 Thread J.A. de Vries
Hi Jon, > The system on which you might want to read the disk will need to know > how to decrypt it. Do you anticipate hot-plugging it to a running > machine, or trying to boot from it? In this situation I will have a disk which is used to boot one machine, but does contain data that will be ne

Re: Make fully encrypted disk without LVM during install

2012-04-04 Thread Jon Dowland
On 01/04/12 08:27, J.A. de Vries wrote: > This time I need my disk to be easily portable, so I prefer to have a > fully encrypted disk without LVM The system on which you might want to read the disk will need to know how to decrypt it. Do you anticipate hot-plugging it to a running machine, or tr

Re: Make fully encrypted disk without LVM during install

2012-04-01 Thread Brad Alexander
If you only encrypt the disk, the default (at least on the squeeze netinstall disk) is to create a large ext3 partition. Then you don't have an lvm partition... --b On Sun, Apr 1, 2012 at 3:27 AM, J.A. de Vries wrote: > Hi all, > > I plan on installing testing on a brand new disk later this week

Make fully encrypted disk without LVM during install

2012-04-01 Thread J.A. de Vries
Hi all, I plan on installing testing on a brand new disk later this week. Last time I did this I just followed the options the installer offered and ended up with a perfectly fine system on a fully encrypted disk using LVM. This time I need my disk to be easily portable, so I prefer to have a f