<div dir="ltr"><div dir="auto">Welcome to the world of linux.<div dir="auto">gparted is simply telling you it doesn't support encrypted file systems.</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div>On another note I wonder how many more people will switch to linux</div><div>once Windows 10 S hits this summer?</div><div><br></div><div>I am also a user of xubuntu and chrome-os & loving it.</div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto"><br></div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On May 17, 2017 8:19 AM, "Joao Monteiro" <<a href="mailto:jmonteiro257@gmail.com" target="_blank">jmonteiro257@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br type="attribution"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">Hi folks,<br>
<br>
My move from windows to xubuntu is final (lol)... preparing this<br>
samsung r20 to be my working laptop and all's going like a breeze :)<br>
<br>
I do of course have more than a million questions now, which I am quite<br>
happily answering through studying the best I can at my own pace. But I<br>
feel that what works best for me is to start from scratch, from the<br>
fundamentals, so I'm studying the Linux filesystem structure, etc. And<br>
there is one thing that is bugging me and I can't understand, so any<br>
help - when time permits it - will be more than welcome.<br>
<br>
OK, Windows 7 is forever gone and I made of the whole laptop a strictly<br>
Xubuntu Xfce machine. During the install, I used the option to encrypt<br>
the disk for extra security. When I boot up, it asks me for the<br>
password, I type it in, it says that crypt key was successful, voila,<br>
all works like a charm haha...<br>
<br>
But... when I then fired Gparted to se the structure graphically and<br>
start to try to understand it all, I noticed two things that are<br>
confusing me:<br>
<br>
1) The structure of my hard disk now shows as: (sorry, don't know yet<br>
how to take a screen shot and then paste it here... will get there soon<br>
I hope)<br>
<br>
/dev/sda1 ext2 /boot 487.00MiB<br>
/dev/sda2 extended 111.31GiB<br>
/dev/sda5 crypt.luks 111.31GiB<br>
<br>
Ok, I understand that sda1 ext2 is the type of fylesystem and this is a<br>
487MiB boot partition<br>
<br>
But the sda5 partition which is the whole rest of the hard disk, shows<br>
graphically in Gparted as inside the sda2 extended partition, which is<br>
also the same size of sda5, coz it is the whole rest of the hard disk.<br>
<br>
So... why do I have sda2 and sda5? The way I see it, the crypt.luks is<br>
the encrypted partition, which is what I want for the whole disk, and<br>
for the little I understand so far, I have the boot and the extended<br>
partition. Why does it create an extended partition and then it creates<br>
an encrypted partition inside the extended one, of the exact same size?<br>
I would have expected to just have /dev/sda2 extended crypt.luks and<br>
not sda2 and sda5...<br>
<br>
Can anyone please find the patience to explain this to me when you have<br>
a chance? Thanks upfront<br>
<br>
2) On the /dev/sda5, I have a yellow warning triangle in front of it<br>
(in Gparted) and when I right click and select Information, it says:<br>
<br>
Warning: Linux Unified Key Setup encryption is not yet supported<br>
<br>
So I'm a bit confused here... does this mean that I'm only beneffiting<br>
from having an extra password safety at boot up time and the disk is<br>
actually not encrypted (which confuses me because when I give the<br>
correct password it says that crypt key has been successful), or is<br>
this referring to some sort of Key management system that is not yet<br>
supported, but the disk is indeed encrypted?<br>
<br>
Sorry bothering you with this, but just confused and to be absolutely<br>
honest, have been so busy hunting for a job that haven't had time yet<br>
to dig into the documentation... good this is got a job yesterday and<br>
I'm now getting this little old machine ready to be my working horse at<br>
work - damn, it works soooo much faster and better with xubuntu than it<br>
ever worked with windows, haha.... can't get enough of it, feel like a<br>
little boy with a spanky new shinny toy hahaha...<br>
<br>
Thank you upfront for any clarification on the above<br>
<br>
Kind regards to all<br>
<br>
Joao<br>
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