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From: Neil Bothwick <neil@××××××××××.uk>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] dm-crypt + ext4 = where will the journal go?
Date: Tue, 04 Sep 2012 20:27:52
Message-Id: 20120904211538.289ab4d5@hactar.digimed.co.uk
In Reply to: Re: Aw: Re: [gentoo-user] dm-crypt + ext4 = where will the journal go? by Hinnerk van Bruinehsen
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4 On Tue, 04 Sep 2012 19:37:16 +0200, Hinnerk van Bruinehsen wrote:
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6 > In theory grub2 is able to open a luks-encrypted volume though it
7 > seems to have some disadvantages: you'll need to enter the passphrase
8 > (or pass the keyfile) two times, because grub itself needs to decrypt
9 > the volume to get the later stages from the encrypted volume and
10 > afterwards the decryption in the bootprocess itself takes place.
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12 You don't need to mount /boot as part of the boot process, only when you
13 want to install a new kernel or reconfigure the bootloader.
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17 Neil Bothwick
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