On Thursday 10 April 2008 10:56:16 pm Andrew Farris wrote: > Anne Wilson wrote: > > > > df > > Filesystem 1K-blocks Used Available Use% Mounted on > > /dev/mapper/VolGroup00-LogVol00 > > 228486436 2424584 226061852 2% / > > /dev/sda1 194442 20120 164283 11% /boot > > tmpfs 1037608 0 1037608 0% /dev/shm > > > > I definitely prefer a separate home, but I've not used LVM before, and I > > can't recall what happened when I tried to do that. > > Ok so you do have the default partitioning scheme with a single / and > /boot. So you are being asked for your LUKS passphrase twice? This may be > because the LVM spans two disks, but thats just a guess because I'm not > familiar with how that is handled. When you have a single encrypted LVM on > a single disk that does not happen. > > > Here's what I got from fdisk -l: > > <snip> > > > > I don't really know how to read this. Why are there 4 dm-devices? > > I'm not sure about why 4 show up, but they are created by udev for device > mapper (the dm-) which does the software raid and in this case handles the > encrypted lvm. My system shows just two of them (dm-0 and dm-1), one for > each encrypted partition (but I have no lvm). My swap is not encrypted. > > Judging by the sizes of the dm-x devices, there is one for each of your > 120Gb disks, one for the full 237Gb LVM (both disks), and one for your swap > (probably encrypted and included inside the LVM on sdb?). > That sounds a likely explanation. I took the default offered because I could not see how to make it do what I wanted. I hate the lack of control, and it just isn't intuitive to find how to control the partitioning. For that matter, I don't like LVM either. I see no advantage to me. The addition of encrypting as an option does seem good. I wonder if it is possible to install and encrypt on a traditional partitioning scheme? Anne -- fedora-test-list mailing list fedora-test-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-test-list
