Bug#976112: Overwriting with random data message truncated
Hi,
Steve McIntyre <steve@einval.com> wrote:
> On Sat, Jan 09, 2021 at 04:02:00PM +0100, Holger Wansing wrote:
> >Hmm, I wonder why the text is truncated at all...
> >
> >The whole text from the template file looks like this:
> >"The installer is now overwriting ${DEVICE} with random data to prevent
> >meta-information leaks from the encrypted volume. This step may be skipped
> >by cancelling this action, albeit at the expense of a slight reduction of the
> >quality of the encryption."
> >
> >So I guess the suggested shortage does not fix the whole problem, and I
> >would not consider changing the template in this situation.
>
> Nod. I've just checked in the text installer and the text there is
> displayed in full. This is something specific to the graphical
> installer. I'm genuinely not sure what's going on here. :-/
How did you reproduce that issue?
Is this specific to partitioning NVMe devices (as can be understood from the OP)?
Holger
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