On Wed, Aug 22, 2012 at 04:10:01PM +0400, Stayvoid wrote: > Hello, > > I'd like to encrypt all partitions (or most of them) with plain dm-crypt. > > Here is my partition scheme: > > 1. /dev/sda1 ext3 (I want to install Parabola here.) > 2. /dev/sda2 swap > 3. /dev/sda3 ext3 gNewSense > > I can't boot from CD or USB that's why I'm going to use the third partition. > > I'd like to format the first two partitions and encrypt them with > plain dm-crypt. > After that I will install Parabola [1] on the first partition. Will this work? > > I'm not sure because my bootloader (PMON) uses the first partition to > store its conf file. And there you have answered your question already: No. What you can do is create a small (e.g. 100MB) partition for the bootloader that is not encrypted. > And how will this work from user's perspective? Will I be prompted for > a passphrase? Why should you be? Unless your distribution has a mechanism that does this (out of scope for cryptsetup), you need to map and mount it manually. I have no idea what your particular distro of choice can or cannot do here, but you need to lok in its documentation to find out, not here. cryptsetup is just a tool with similarities to "mount", not an integrated system encryption solution. > Should I use a more complicated scheme (with /boot)? > > [1] Here is the installation guide: > https://wiki.parabolagnulinux.org/MIPS_Installation > > Thanks > > P.S. I haven't decided what to do with the third partition yet. Maybe > I'll erase and encrypt it later. You need if for booting. Unless your distro has an initrd that can mount encrypted volumes. See docu of your distro. Arno -- Arno Wagner, Dr. sc. techn., Dipl. Inform., Email: arno@xxxxxxxxxxx GnuPG: ID: 1E25338F FP: 0C30 5782 9D93 F785 E79C 0296 797F 6B50 1E25 338F ---- One of the painful things about our time is that those who feel certainty are stupid, and those with any imagination and understanding are filled with doubt and indecision. -- Bertrand Russell _______________________________________________ dm-crypt mailing list dm-crypt@xxxxxxxx http://www.saout.de/mailman/listinfo/dm-crypt
