On 1/8/2010 5:26 AM, Stan Hoeppner wrote:
Sjors van der Pluijm put forth on 1/8/2010 5:13 AM:3. Is it ok to have swap and /boot on an encrypted LVM?Never run encryption on swap. Doing so merely burdens performance. I doubt even NSA, CIA, MI6 encrypt swap partitions on workstations. I've never tried to boot from an encrypted /boot, so I really can't say if it would work or not. Why can't/won't you create 3 partitions?
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[boot] 200MB mounted as /boot normal ext2 [swap] 1-8GB mounted as normal swap partition [root] [1/3 remaining space] mounted as / [root] and encrypted however you like
[home] [2/3 remaining space] probably the most urgent for encryption Mark Allums