Re: Recommendation on partition sizes

[Pascal Hambourg <pascal@plouf.fr.eu.org>]

Le 05/11/2018 à 09:11, Rick Thomas a écrit :
> > On Nov 4, 2018, at 1:19 AM, Pascal Hambourg <pascal@plouf.fr.eu.org> wrote:
> >
> > Le 04/11/2018 à 05:45, Andy Smith a écrit :
> > > So, if I were you, I'd be doing something like:
> > > - 512MiB /boot
> > > - 2 GiB swap, or 16GiB if you intend to use it as a hibernate device
> > > - Rest as LVM volume group
> > >      - 4 GiB / as logical volume
> > >      - 4 GiB /var as logical volume
> > >      - 50GiB (or whatever satisfies initial demand) /home as logical
> > >        volume
> >
> > Why don’t you include the swap in LVM ?
>
> You want the swap partition to be encrypted with a random key.

Why ? What's wrong with a static key ?