Simon Hollenbach wrote: > I recently set up a system/squeeze I wanna use as a gateway. For > various reasons I decided to go for crypto-drives.
Sure. > Since I split up my hdd and configured mdadm-raid1, I ended up with > multiple partitions for which I provided the same key. On bootup I > now gotta prove that Im able to type the pass five times, I think, > without flaw. Instead of using five separately encrypted partitions I suggest that you use one encrypted partition as a basis for LVM. Then use LVM to create your individual partitions and swap. This is my typical configuration and it works very well. Then you only need to supply the passphrase once when booting. > Sometimes I think this is an unfortunate setup, I should have > encrypted a single volume, then raid1 on it and afterwards some > virtual partitions via mdadm. Comments on that are highly > appreciated since Im new to these hdd charms... :) Yes. :-) Bob
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