also sprach Douglas A. Tutty <dtutty@vianet.ca> [2009.04.09.1532 +0200]:
> > On the other hand, having / in LVM means:
> > * you can enlarge / when necessary;
>
> You should never have to enlarge a 500 MB /
I bet you'll be wrong in 10 years.
> > * you can encrypt / if desired;
>
> Why would you need / encrypted (if swap, /tmp, /home, and parts of /var
> are encrypted)?
Because it contains e.g. /bin/ls and you don't want that to be
trojaned. Obviously, an integrity checker can also help.
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