On 01/04/12 08:27, J.A. de Vries wrote: > This time I need my disk to be easily portable, so I prefer to have a > fully encrypted disk without LVM
The system on which you might want to read the disk will need to know how to decrypt it. Do you anticipate hot-plugging it to a running machine, or trying to boot from it? The convenience-partitioning-scheme offered by d-i which uses LVM and encryption also creates a non-encrypted, non-LVM /boot partition, within which the kernel and initramfs are stored. These are set up to understand how to interpret both the encryption and LVM. I'm having trouble seeing why LVM would be much more pain than encryption already brings you, from a portable POV. (I suppose it's one fewer command to type!)
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