** Description changed: - When installing side by side with Windows, the option to use encryption - is not provided. + So someone felt they should edit my bug report description (despite it + remaining in my name) to simply this... + + --- + When installing side by side with Windows, the option to use encryption is not provided. + --- + + Which is only one way of looking at the bug. I am really not happy that + this has been edited as it is putting words in my mouth, so again here + is the original description. If you are unhappy with my bug report, I + would rather you mark it as invalid or delete it rather than start + rephrasing what I have said into something I was not trying to say. + + --- + My workplace gave me a new Dell laptop and (although I don't use Windows, unlike my colleagues) I have been told to keep the Windows partitions intact (e.g. the Dell/Windows recovery, EFI and main Windows partitions) probably so that if the laptop needs re-purposing later they can as Windows 10 doesn't seem to use a serial/recovery media any more. + + I was happy to oblige with this request and on first ever laptop power + on got it booting the Ubuntu MATE 18.04 installer from USB pen. I'd have + loved to have just picked the encryption option presented (which also + makes LVM mandatory) but this would erase Windows off too... so I had to + use the advanced partitioning screen... where I shrank the main Windows + partition and made myself a little ext4 /boot partition and an encrypted + ext4 root partition. + + This was fine until I realised that hibernation doesn't work with swap + files (read other reports online about this) and needs a swap partition + (something I am pleased to say has now become the default as I hate swap + partitions - that is... until now, when I need one). + + Making another partition for encrypted swap would have worked but would + surely have resulted in two password prompts on boot and a lot of re- + configuring. Which got me thinking that what was really needed in this + use case... is a way of using the normal encryption option in the + installer (not using the advanced partition screen) which uses LVM also + (so both swap and root partitions are covered by the same encryption)... + BUT in a way that it just uses whatever free space is available... + rather than wiping the whole disk. + + In the end I had to manually create the ext4 /boot, the crypt partition, + LVM pv on top of that, the LVM vg, two LVM lv's and format them... then + open up the installer for the advanced partitioning screen to see the + pre-existing /dev/mapper/ entries for it to install to. But because the + installer doesn't know it is installing to an encrypted area I still had + to (afterwards) teach it about these by making a /etc/crypttab and + reinstalling grub. + + So I do *at last* have a hibernating, dual booting and encrypted laptop. + + But it shouldn't be this difficult to get that surely? + + I'd equally welcome a way of installing with encryption (again to free + space, not wipe whole disk) without LVM... but if this is with a swap + partition then the user should only be prompted for a password once on + boot (for both encrypted root and encrypted swap)... or if this is using + a swap file inside the encrypted root partition then the + hibernation/resume to/from swap file needs fixing. + + Sorry for the long report :) + ---
** Summary changed: - Side by side install with Windows does not also provide encryption option + Insufficient options for encryption -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1780971 Title: Insufficient options for encryption To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/ubiquity/+bug/1780971/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
