[lug] stupid encrypted hard disk question

[Bear Giles]

I thought my swap partitions are also encrypted but I would have to check.

I set up the partitions with the standard alternative Ubuntu (11.04?) disk.
Not the pretty one but the one that gives you more flexibility on your
partitions. The partition manager claims that these partitions are
encrypted.

Hmm... I'll be doing fresh installs with 12.04 soonish so I'll see how it
behaves then.


On Sat, May 19, 2012 at 2:22 PM, Stephen Queen <svqueen at gmail.com> wrote:

> On 5/18/12, Bear Giles <bgiles at coyotesong.com> wrote:
> > I have a really stupid encrypted hard disk question.
> >
> > I have a system with two drives, each with three partitions.  There's a
> > small RAID-1 partition for /boot, a small non-RAID partition for swap
> > (giving two swap partitions in total - there's no point in using RAID
> with
> > swap), and the third partition is a fairly standard stack:
> >
> >  - LVM
> >  - encryption
> >  - RAID
> >
> > The issue is that when I boot the system it brings me to the login
> screen.
> > Shouldn't it take me to a screen to enter a decryption password for the
> big
> > partition? If it's reading the password from somewhere in the /boot
> > partition doesn't that defeat the whole purpose for the encryption?
> >
> > In contrast my Windows disk encryption requires me to enter a password
> > before it starts booting the system at all.
> >
> I have my disk encrypted as well. When I get passed the grub menu, it
> asks for the password for the disks. Are you sure you have the
> encryption setup correctly?
>
> I have my swap area encrypted too, so that what is swapped in and out
> stays hidden.
>
> Steve
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