So why the crypted partition assistant choose ext3 filesystem for logical volume?
I would prefer it choose no filesytem, it will be less confuse that I have to configure logical volumes. The LVM assistant is much rational on this point. 1. create logical volumes 2. configure them out of the LVM assistant The "Assisté - utiliser tout un disque avec LVM chiffré" option didn't fit my need as for a laptop, only crypting /home and swap was necessary for me. Le vendredi 11 février 2011 à 07:20 +0100, Christian PERRIER a écrit : > Quoting Tuxicoman (p...@jesuislibre.net): > > Package: debian-installer > > Version: squeeze 6.0 > > Severity: normal > > > > I wanted to crypt my /home partition at installation. > > > > During the installation process, partition step : > > I have a empty disk. > > I first choose to partition automatically the disk (/ in ext3, swap and > > /home > > in ext3 created) > > Then I use the crypt partitions assistant (The langage used during > > installation > > was french, i don't know what is the english name of the menu item) > > I choose to crypt swap and the ext3 partition which mount point is /home. > > I configure the swap partition to be encrypted. Ok. > > In the screen where I configure the ext3 partition to be encrypted it shows > > : > > "mount point : /home". > > > > Then, after processing, my crypted volumes are : > > swap assigned to swap, > > ext3 crypted volume : no mount point. > > > > I guess, the ext3 crypted volume should have keeped the /home mount point > > and > > it's a bug. > > The user then has to assing manually this partition to /home otherwise > > debian > > installer will warn this partition will not be used. > > > Though it may seem logical to try, what you're trying to do is, imho, > nearly not possible without deep invasive changes. > > You're indeed doing two partitioning steps. The first creates the > partitions and assigns mount points.....but the latteer uses these > partitions to create volumes where *logical* volumes will be created. > > You want the logical volumes to keep the set mount point for the > volume containers. But, what if two logical volumes are created, > instead of only one, in each partition? > > So, yes, at some point, the partitioner "forgets" that you assigned > /home to /dev/sda6 (for instance)....and you need to assign /home to > sda6_crypt once encrypted volumes are created. > > I see no way to avoid that. > > Encrypted volumes is a complicated thing, indeed. This is why we have > the "Assisté - utiliser tout un disque avec LVM chiffré" option, that > does everything automagically. > > >
