Re: New install -> Laptop, dual boot with Win7, config with LVM+LUKS fails if the encryption layer is on top of LVM layer
On Mon, 18 Jul 2011 21:39:24 +1000, yudi wrote in message
<[🔎] CACo--mvsQZWxx5f+AJ4zH6bRupL9U0jrqNHdf07cmJPjkd1Z3Q@mail.gmail.com>:
> I am trying to install Debian Squeeze 32bit on a laptop with 750Gb
> Advanced Format WD drive.
..if it can run 64-bit Wintendo 7, you wanna install
64-bit Debian Squeeze.
> the partition scheme I have in my mind is like this:
>
> sda1 100GB Win7
> sda2 500GB LVM (also the PV and the VG)
> -LV 500MB /boot
> -LV 15GB /root (encrypted)
> -LV 50GB /home (encrypted)
> -LV 4GB swap partition (encrypted)
> - leave the rest unassigned for the time being
> sda3 150GB NTFS ( whatever is left)
>
>
> I realize that Debian default install encrypts the whole PV not the
> individual LVs, I tried couple of times to setup LUKS encryption on
> top of the LVM as mentioned above but failed miserably, it always
> fails at the stage where it is trying to install software. By the way
> I am using debian-6.0.2.1-i386-DVD-1.iso
>
> I would like to know couple of things:
>
> 1. Is the setup valid, is it possible to have all the partitions in
> the LVM with some of them in encrypted containers (/, /home, swap). I
> know that this is possible without encryption.
> 2. if this setup is possible, I would like to know if there is a way
> to decrypt all the encrypted LVs with one pass phrase.
>
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