On Sat, Nov 04, 2006 at 11:45:55AM +0100, Hadmut Danisch wrote: > On Sat, Nov 04, 2006 at 11:14:04AM +0100, maximilian attems wrote: > > > > > The scripts that come with debian support (or at least supported at > > > that time) only encrypting the volumes inside an LVM separately. > > > > please explain what you mean by aboves sentence. > > afaik cryptoroot on top of a lvm is supported as well as > > lvm on top of luks. > > > > > Well, at the time when I wrote my script, the problem was that > debian's initramfs scripts supported > > Disk Partition -> LVM -> Logical Volume -> LUKS -> root file system > > while I needed > > Disk Partition -> LUKS -> LVM -> Logical Volume -> root file system > -> Logical Volume -> /home > ...
finaly some explanation of words, would be cool to post that on the first mail! > I currently don't remember the details and I didn't keep > that old packages. If I remember correctly, cryptsetup did not come > with it's own scripts, it was part of the mkinitramfs main script. no it was an hook script on it's own. > Meanwhile I have moved my notebooks from debian to ubuntu, same method. > > I did not care about the debian or ubuntu scripts, since my own one > worked well until recently. I could not boot anymore after upgrading > to latest ubuntu, because /sbin/vgchange was not included in the > ramdisk automatically anymore. I could easily fix that by installing > it in my hook, but that was the reason to read /usr/sbin/mkinitramfs > and to see that the LVM parts of this script were already removed in > ubuntu and announced to be removed soon in debian. That's why I was > asking. yes they land in respoective hooks. > Now as you mentioned it, I saw that the initramfs script coming with > cryptsetup seems to support LVM inside a LUKS partition. yes it does since long. so everybody is happy and we can move on.. -- maks -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
