Re: initramfs-utils and LVM ?
On Sat, Nov 04, 2006 at 11:45:55AM +0100, Hadmut Danisch wrote:
> On Sat, Nov 04, 2006 at 11:14:04AM +0100, maximilian attems wrote:
> >
> > > The scripts that come with debian support (or at least supported at
> > > that time) only encrypting the volumes inside an LVM separately.
> >
> > please explain what you mean by aboves sentence.
> > afaik cryptoroot on top of a lvm is supported as well as
> > lvm on top of luks.
> >
>
>
> Well, at the time when I wrote my script, the problem was that
> debian's initramfs scripts supported
>
> Disk Partition -> LVM -> Logical Volume -> LUKS -> root file system
>
> while I needed
>
> Disk Partition -> LUKS -> LVM -> Logical Volume -> root file system
> -> Logical Volume -> /home
> ...
finaly some explanation of words, would be cool to post that on the
first mail!
> I currently don't remember the details and I didn't keep
> that old packages. If I remember correctly, cryptsetup did not come
> with it's own scripts, it was part of the mkinitramfs main script.
no it was an hook script on it's own.
> Meanwhile I have moved my notebooks from debian to ubuntu, same method.
>
> I did not care about the debian or ubuntu scripts, since my own one
> worked well until recently. I could not boot anymore after upgrading
> to latest ubuntu, because /sbin/vgchange was not included in the
> ramdisk automatically anymore. I could easily fix that by installing
> it in my hook, but that was the reason to read /usr/sbin/mkinitramfs
> and to see that the LVM parts of this script were already removed in
> ubuntu and announced to be removed soon in debian. That's why I was
> asking.
yes they land in respoective hooks.
> Now as you mentioned it, I saw that the initramfs script coming with
> cryptsetup seems to support LVM inside a LUKS partition.
yes it does since long.
so everybody is happy and we can move on..
--
maks
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