[xubuntu-users] Help me understand please

[Joao Monteiro]

Thank you, both for the welcome and the gparted info.

I have no clue, but quite a number of friends and colleagues are giving me
usb sticks for me to install the xubuntu xfce that I'm using and try it in
its live try mode... you guys know what I mean... and some already asked me
(and got it) to get it installed in dual boot configuration in some of
their "less important" windows laptops.. and they're happy...and asking me
questions that to my very own surprise I find myself answering
easily....lol...

My daughter's a teacher so she's definitely stuck with windows 10 at work
by necessity... but keeps playing with xubuntu xfce in my little, old asus
eerpc 1000h, which performs like a charm.

All I can say is that one month ago I would never have believed I would
come accross anything better than Mate any time soon (hey... to my personal
taste mind you; lots of respect and fondness for Mate)... and now...
well... draw your conclusions by my ceaseless babbling haha...

Can't thank enough to the xubuntu xfce developers... hope they realize what
a treasure they built and don't ever let personal differences or egos cause
it to fade away or die...

To me... damn serious threat to wondows and blessfully so :)

Joao

On 17 May 2017 19:56, "Daniel Wastak" <dan at 1j5.us> wrote:

> Welcome to the world of linux.
> gparted is simply telling you it doesn't support encrypted file systems.
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> On another note I wonder how many more people will switch to linux
> once Windows 10 S hits this summer?
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> I am also a user of xubuntu and chrome-os & loving it.
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> On May 17, 2017 8:19 AM, "Joao Monteiro" <jmonteiro257 at gmail.com> wrote:
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>> Hi folks,
>>
>> My move from windows to xubuntu is final (lol)... preparing this
>> samsung r20 to be my working laptop and all's going like a breeze :)
>>
>> I do of course have more than a million questions now, which I am quite
>> happily answering through studying the best I can at my own pace. But I
>> feel that what works best for me is to start from scratch, from the
>> fundamentals, so I'm studying the Linux filesystem structure, etc. And
>> there is one thing that is bugging me and I can't understand, so any
>> help - when time permits it - will be more than welcome.
>>
>> OK, Windows 7 is forever gone and I made of the whole laptop a strictly
>> Xubuntu Xfce machine. During the install, I used the option to encrypt
>> the disk for extra security. When I boot up, it asks me for the
>> password, I type it in, it says that crypt key was successful, voila,
>> all works like a charm haha...
>>
>> But... when I then fired Gparted to se the structure graphically and
>> start to try to understand it all, I noticed two things that are
>> confusing me:
>>
>> 1) The structure of my hard disk now shows as: (sorry, don't know yet
>> how to take a screen shot and then paste it here... will get there soon
>> I hope)
>>
>> /dev/sda1      ext2        /boot    487.00MiB
>> /dev/sda2      extended             111.31GiB
>>   /dev/sda5    crypt.luks           111.31GiB
>>
>> Ok, I understand that sda1 ext2 is the type of fylesystem and this is a
>> 487MiB boot partition
>>
>> But the sda5 partition which is the whole rest of the hard disk, shows
>> graphically in Gparted as inside the sda2 extended partition, which is
>> also the same size of sda5, coz it is the whole rest of the hard disk.
>>
>> So... why do I have sda2 and sda5? The way I see it, the crypt.luks is
>> the encrypted partition, which is what I want for the whole disk, and
>> for the little I understand so far, I have the boot and the extended
>> partition. Why does it create an extended partition and then it creates
>> an encrypted partition inside the extended one, of the exact same size?
>> I would have expected to just have /dev/sda2 extended crypt.luks and
>> not sda2 and sda5...
>>
>> Can anyone please find the patience to explain this to me when you have
>> a chance? Thanks upfront
>>
>> 2) On the /dev/sda5, I have a yellow warning triangle in front of it
>> (in Gparted) and when I right click and select Information, it says:
>>
>> Warning: Linux Unified Key Setup encryption is not yet supported
>>
>> So I'm a bit confused here... does this mean that I'm only beneffiting
>> from having an extra password safety at boot up time and the disk is
>> actually not encrypted (which confuses me because when I give the
>> correct password it says that crypt key has been successful), or is
>> this referring to some sort of Key management system that is not yet
>> supported, but the disk is indeed encrypted?
>>
>> Sorry bothering you with this, but just confused and to be absolutely
>> honest, have been so busy hunting for a job that haven't had time yet
>> to dig into the documentation... good this is got a job yesterday and
>> I'm now getting this little old machine ready to be my working horse at
>> work - damn, it works soooo much faster and better with xubuntu than it
>> ever worked with windows, haha.... can't get enough of it, feel like a
>> little boy with a spanky new shinny toy hahaha...
>>
>> Thank you upfront for any clarification on the above
>>
>> Kind regards to all
>>
>> Joao
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