Whole disk encryption

Dmitrijs Ledkovs dmitrij.ledkov at ubuntu.com
Tue Dec 4 09:20:00 UTC 2012


On 4 December 2012 05:43, Dale Amon <amon at vnl.com> wrote:
> Just did a test drive on Quantal, tried several different
> types of build. However the one thing I could not figure
> out was how to get multiple partitions on the encrypted
> disk. It does not seem to want to allow me to specify the
> size of the / partition either to allow me to build a
> separately keyed LUKS partition for other uses or to do
> so via LVM.
>
> Did I miss something in the install menu's? It does not seem
> like an unusual requirement.
>

Inherently LUKS does not have a "partition table" so you either create
multiple luks partitions (each with an encryption key) or use lvm on
top of LUKS. You did not miss anything.

Regards,

Dmitrijs.




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