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Am 03.09.2012 22:20, schrieb "Roland Häder": |
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> Hi all, |
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> I'm currently testing dm-crypt to encrypt my whole hard drive. So far |
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> I followed this [1] guide and have to wait for the randomization part |
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> of the hard drive. |
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You forgot the link to [1]. |
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> In the wiki, ext4 is being used. Since ext3 a journal has been added. |
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> From my times with loop-aes I know that I have to store the journal |
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> through an encrypted loop device else it might be written on the hard |
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> drive. |
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Never used loop-aes myself. Sorry if I miss the reason for your |
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confusion because of it. |
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> As of I'm new to dm-crypt and Gentoo, where will that journal now |
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> go? |
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Opening a dmcrypt volume creates a mapped block device in /dev/mapper. |
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You treat it like a partition and format it with ext4. Unless you use |
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some exotic flags for mke2fs, the journal will be put on the same block |
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device and is encrypted along with the rest of it. |
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So: No need to worry about it. |
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Hope this helps, |
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Florian Philipp |
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