[ale] Encrypted filesystem on netbook

[Brian Pitts]

On 11/22/2009 09:35 PM, Andrew Grieser wrote:
> Brian,
> 
> What's your experience been with upgrades / clean installs? I like the
> idea of having a separate home partition, and then when moving between
> Ubuntu / Debian / Fedora it's just a matter of installing over the /
> partition, and mounting the /home partition.
> 
> It sounds like with LUKS, that isn't going to be possible anymore. I
> tried the alternate CD, and it gave me LVM inside of a "crypto"
> partition. Rebooting and attempting to re-install (just to see how it
> works) didn't give me any option to decrypt and install within the
> crypto partition. The only option was to blow it away and start again.
> Unless I was missing something.

LVM on the dm-crypt device is the standard way of doing full-cisk
encryption.

I upgraded from Fedora 11 to 12 by booting the installation DVD. Ine of
the first things it did was ask for my LUKS passphrase. After giving it
that I was able upgrade my existing, encrypted installation. I think I
could have chosen to nuke / but keep /home instead.

I don't know if the debian/ubuntu installer allows this, since I've
never used an optical disk to upgrade when running it.

-- 
All the best,
Brian Pitts