Hi, > > I'm currently installing Arch on my laptop (Thinkpad T400), and have decided > > for a rather unusual partition scheme: A single LUKS container directly on > > the disk (SSD) with a GPT partition table and two partitions inside it: one for > > SWAP, the other one for the system and everyting else, formatted with Btrfs. > > I'm not really answering your question here, but just out of curiosity what's the > appeal of this approach over doing one of the options described at > https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Dm-crypt/Swap_encryption: > > (1) dm-encrypted swap with a new key generated each boot (what I generally use, is > the most secure, and works in any case where you don't need to hibernate) Hibernation :P > (2) The same thing you're trying to do but with LVM instead of a GPT table I don't need any LVM functionality and would consider it a little bit overkill for just dividing available space into two partitions. > (3) a swap file on your Btrfs volume itself That's (currently) not possible, see the link you posted. By the way, please try to add line breaks at about 75 characters, see [0]. Regards, Merlin [0] https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Code_of_conduct#Mailing_lists -- Merlin Büge <toni@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
