Re: whole disk encryption -- not prompting for passphrase
Giorgos D. Pallas wrote:
> Emanoil Kotsev wrote:
>> I'm pretty sure that the crypt thing is not compatible with lvm. may be
>> this is the problem. I'm not 100% sure though. The problem could be
>> related to previous formatting and using lvm, or some cached information
>> somewhere.
>>
>> what does sudo fdisk -l /dev/hda looks like. how are your partitions
>> marked there (the Id field)
>>
>> parted should help you resize I guess.
>>
>>
>
> Check out these guides (one of them is mine - the good one of course :-P
> ). LVM and crypto could not be uncompatible because they operate on
> devices, virtual or not. So you can either set up LVM on a LUKS
> partition, or a LUKS partition on a LVM volume. The debian way is the
> first (but I have found no explanation about that).
>
> http://www.debian-administration.org/articles/577
> http://www.debian-administration.org/articles/469
>
> cheers,
> George
This explanations help a lot, thanks!
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