Re: no root file system after encryption

2015-05-12 Thread Bob Proulx
Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote: > The bathtub curve also applies for software systems, in practice. When > you aim for realiability, you need to consider the general maintenance > state of the underlying kernel code (bitrot that crept in as other parts > of the kernel changed and evolved, gener

Re: no root file system after encryption

2015-05-12 Thread David Christensen
On 05/12/2015 08:34 AM, Ken Heard wrote: Why not ... create RAID1 with two drives, then LVM, and set up encryption for three LVM virtual partitions, swap (random key), tmp and home (both with passphrases)-- everything else in unencrypted virtual partitions. TIMTOWTDI. I prefer to encrypt eve

Re: no root file system after encryption

2015-05-12 Thread Ken Heard
On 2015-05-05 12:39, David Christensen wrote: Briefly -- to obtain encrypted file systems, the process is to create partitions, mark them as encrypted volumes, configure the encrypted volumes, and then put LVM and/or file systems into the encrypted volumes. Why not the other way? I have bee

Re: no root file system after encryption

2015-05-12 Thread Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
On Mon, May 11, 2015, at 12:36, Renaud OLGIATI wrote: > On Mon, 11 May 2015 11:50:41 -0300 > Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote: > > In that sense, ext2 is not nearly as good a choice as it once was. A > > newly created ext3 with default parameters (yes, that means it gets a > > journal -- that's

Re: no root file system after encryption

2015-05-11 Thread Ron
On Mon, 11 May 2015 11:50:41 -0300 Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote: > In that sense, ext2 is not nearly as good a choice as it once was. A > newly created ext3 with default parameters (yes, that means it gets a > journal -- that's how it gets most use and most testing) is a better bet > nowada

Re: no root file system after encryption

2015-05-11 Thread Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
On Fri, May 8, 2015, at 17:00, Bob Proulx wrote: > I always use and recommend ext2 for /boot. It avoids wasting space in The bathtub curve also applies for software systems, in practice. When you aim for realiability, you need to consider the general maintenance state of the underlying kernel co

Re: no root file system after encryption

2015-05-08 Thread Bob Proulx
Juha Heinanen wrote: > Bob Proulx writes: > > Why no LVM? Using LVM is the way I always do it because that allows > > I didn't have any particular reason to avoid LVM. I just tried if > encrypted installation succeeds without it. Now that I tried with LVM, > installation was simple and worked wi

Re: no root file system after encryption

2015-05-08 Thread Bob Proulx
David Christensen wrote: > Juha Heinanen wrote: > > On Partition settings screen, I choose Use as Ext2, Mount point /boot, and > > Bootable flag on. Then I choose Done setting up the partition. > > Why ext2? I use ext4. I always use and recommend ext2 for /boot. It avoids wasting space in the

Re: no root file system after encryption

2015-05-07 Thread Juha Heinanen
Bob Proulx writes: > Why no LVM? Using LVM is the way I always do it because that allows > me to encrypt a single partition and therefore only require a single > passphrase to decrypt and load. Typically with multiple partitions > then each and every separate partition requires a passphrase. Th

Re: no root file system after encryption

2015-05-06 Thread Bob Proulx
Juha Heinanen wrote: > I'll watch the video, but I was not planing to use LVM and my problem is > related to non-LVM partition encyrption. Why no LVM? Using LVM is the way I always do it because that allows me to encrypt a single partition and therefore only require a single passphrase to decrypt

Re: no root file system after encryption

2015-05-05 Thread David Christensen
On 05/05/2015 10:34 AM, Juha Heinanen wrote: Here are the steps I made. Detect disk results in screen where the disk that I try to partition shows pri/log 15.8 GB FREE SPACE. I will assume you have a 16 GB drive with no other partitions. I select it and on the next screen, I select Create a

Re: no root file system after encryption

2015-05-05 Thread Juha Heinanen
Here are the steps I made. Detect disk results in screen where the disk that I try to partition shows pri/log 15.8 GB FREE SPACE. I select it and on the next screen, I select Create a new partition. This is going to be /boot and I set the size to 16MB and select primary. On Partition settings scr

Re: no root file system after encryption

2015-05-05 Thread Juha Heinanen
Patrick Bartek writes: > More details of exactly what you did would help. That is. Did you use > LVM or Primary/Logical partitioning? Which partitions did you encrypt? > You didn't encrypt /boot did you? Did you let the installer handle the > partitioning and encryption or did you set up encrypti

Re: no root file system after encryption

2015-05-05 Thread Juha Heinanen
David Christensen writes: > This video shows creating an unencrypted /boot partition and an > encrypted partition with LVM with swap and root: > > https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z9pn2PYbDdA I'll watch the video, but I was not planing to use LVM and my problem is related to non-LVM partiti

Re: no root file system after encryption

2015-05-05 Thread Patrick Bartek
On Mon, 04 May 2015, Juha Heinanen wrote: > I'm trying to install debian jessie with three partitions: /boot, /, > and swap. i'm able to create and encrypt the partitions fine, but > when I then try to changes to disk, installer complains: > > No root file system defined, please correct this f

Re: no root file system after encryption

2015-05-05 Thread David Christensen
On 05/04/2015 11:02 AM, Juha Heinanen wrote: I'm trying to install debian jessie with three partitions: /boot, /, and swap. i'm able to create and encrypt the partitions fine, but when I then try to changes to disk, installer complains: No root file system defined, please correct this from pa

no root file system after encryption

2015-05-04 Thread Juha Heinanen
I'm trying to install debian jessie with three partitions: /boot, /, and swap. i'm able to create and encrypt the partitions fine, but when I then try to changes to disk, installer complains: No root file system defined, please correct this from partitioning menu. The second partition had / as