[ale] I have fallen in love with Truecrypt

Scott Castaline skotchman at gmail.com
Fri Feb 11 08:12:17 EST 2011


On 02/11/2011 07:15 AM, Matty wrote:
> On Fri, Feb 11, 2011 at 4:25 AM, JD<jdp at algoloma.com>  wrote:
>
>> I encrypt the entire "data" partition on my laptop.
> How well do the various full drive encryption technologies work with
> LVM and MD? I mirror my boot devices, and am curious if they can use
> the md/lvm devices vs. a partition or sda/hda device?
>
> - Ryan
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I use dmcrypt or LUKS with LVM and no problem. All Devices are encrypted 
except for my boot drive. That one is a separate VG for with 5 or more 
LVs that is encrypted at the VG level and /boot is on it's own fs and 
unencrypted. I cannot speak for MD as I don't do RAID right now.


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