Re: initramfs-utils and LVM ?

[maximilian attems <maks@sternwelten.at>]

On Fri, 03 Nov 2006, Hadmut Danisch wrote:

> Thanks for the hint. I was reading that skript when I wrote my own
> one. Unfortunately the initramfs hooks did not support what I was
> looking for. I was in contact with the luks package maintainers. 
> 
> 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.
 
> In contrast, I wanted to encrypt the whole LVM volume in one luks
> volume and hide it's volume structure, and to require only a single
> password and luks mount step. It works pretty well, there's just one
> big luks volume on the disk, and all partitions including root is
> hidden inside this LVM. This also reduces overhead, because you don't
> have to cope with the encryption when adding new logical volumes.

again i don't understand your wording.
addding alpix on cc.

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maks