On Fri, Apr 15, 2011 at 09:38:36PM +0200, Claudio Moretti wrote: > On Fri, Apr 15, 2011 at 18:58, Arno Wagner <arno@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > Dear all, > > > > I just sent the email below to ubuntu-bugsquad@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > > I did not find another way to report a bug without installing > > Ubuntu (which am an not about to do). If somebody knows a better > > way or has Ubuntu installed and can file this directly for the > > installer package, please feel free. > > > > I hope this communicates the problem adequately. > > > > Arno > > > > As far as I know (I'm an Ubuntu user, with a little experience) you can > choose between automatic and manual partitioning; partitioning options are > shown here: https://help.ubuntu.com/community/GraphicalInstall and the > partition step in the installation process is fully described here: > https://help.ubuntu.com/10.10/installation-guide/i386/module-details.html#di-partition > > If you choose automatic partitioning, you will lose the content of your > disks, but the system warns you; if you choose manual partitioning and > delete the dm-crypt partitions to make new ones, I don't see how the > installer can warn you, aside from telling you you're destroying a partition > (and if you choose manual partitioning, you should know what can happen, > otherwise you shouldn't use it). > > In order to use encrypted disks, the installer needs to write the partition > table: before doing it, it warns you that when writing the partition table > changes will be written on the disk and you may lose your data. Huh? Why does it need to write the partition table? LUKS causes no such requirement... > In _my_ opinion, the process is quite clear. I see that there may be > problems, but, well (and with this I don't mean to offend anybody, because I > made really stupid mistakes with encrypted partitions) if you don't read > what you're doing, it's not an Ubuntu problem; like if you type that > uppercase YES while luksFormat-ting a partition and then complain that it > should have warned you better... I think this is something else. But I would not know. Arno -- Arno Wagner, Dr. sc. techn., Dipl. Inform., CISSP -- Email: arno@xxxxxxxxxxx GnuPG: ID: 1E25338F FP: 0C30 5782 9D93 F785 E79C 0296 797F 6B50 1E25 338F ---- Cuddly UI's are the manifestation of wishful thinking. -- Dylan Evans If it's in the news, don't worry about it. The very definition of "news" is "something that hardly ever happens." -- Bruce Schneier _______________________________________________ dm-crypt mailing list dm-crypt@xxxxxxxx http://www.saout.de/mailman/listinfo/dm-crypt
