On Wed, 18 Jul 2007 21:36:38 +1000 Fog_Watch <db5@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Hello > > I would like to encrypt most of my file server. To do this I thought > I would place logical volumes on top of loop-aes. This is where I've > got to: > #losetup -K /mnt/keys/keyfile.gpg /dev/loop3 /dev/hda6 > #pvcreate /dev/loop3 > Physical volume "/dev/loop3" successfully created > #vgcreate vg /dev/loop3 > Found duplicate PV SO5CgPDJuTwi8LFh7x7N4qqCaEU70hJ9: using /dev/hda6 > not /dev/loop3 Found duplicate PV SO5CgPDJuTwi8LFh7x7N4qqCaEU70hJ9: > using /dev/loop3 not /dev/hda6 Found duplicate PV > SO5CgPDJuTwi8LFh7x7N4qqCaEU70hJ9: using /dev/hda6 not /dev/loop3 Found > duplicate PV SO5CgPDJuTwi8LFh7x7N4qqCaEU70hJ9: using /dev/loop3 > not /dev/hda6 Volume group "vg" successfully created > > Well, that looks ugly to me. There is something I'm not doing > correctly here. I know this is a vague question but, do you have any > pointers as to whether and how LVM2 logical volumes should be > established on loop-aes loop devices? > > Thanks for reading. > > Regards > > Fog_Watch. I started this last year. For the record, the answer is loop-AES-v3.2c, the readme and the comments in build-initrd.sh. There is some elaboration on the documentation in a Gentoo how to: http://gentoo-wiki.com/HOWTO_loop-AES_LVM2_root_partition. Basically the technique is to put logical volumes onto partitions, loop-aes loopbacks on these and file systems over the top. Thanks to Jari for working this out. Regards Fog_Watch. -- Lose wait. Get Gentoo. - Linux-crypto: cryptography in and on the Linux system Archive: http://mail.nl.linux.org/linux-crypto/
