[lug] stupid encrypted hard disk question

Bear Giles bgiles at coyotesong.com
Tue May 22 13:34:54 MDT 2012


How do I turn on encryption now? My stack is LVM/Encryption/RAID1.


On Tue, May 22, 2012 at 1:28 PM, Sean Reifschneider <jafo at tummy.com> wrote:

> On 05/19/2012 05:35 PM, Bear Giles wrote:
> > I thought my swap partitions are also encrypted but I would have to
> check.
>
> For the typical Fedora and Ubuntu setups, everything is encrypted except
> /boot, unless you do only the "encrypted home directory" option.
>
> > Hmm... I'll be doing fresh installs with 12.04 soonish so I'll see how it
> > behaves then.
>
> I've been told that the standard Ubuntu install disc now includes support
> to do the encrypted LVM, but when I've installed 12.04 I've used the
> alternate installer.  The Fedora standard installer does (and has done) LVM
> encrypted setups for quite a while.
>
> Sean
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