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Am Dienstag, 4. September 2007 schrieb ext Remy Blank: |
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> Dirk Heinrichs wrote: |
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> >> Do you even need one? |
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> > |
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> > Yes, I do. Because I have / on a logical volume which may (in case of a |
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> > laptop) also be encrypted. |
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> Right. I think I might have confused the necessity to have an initramfs |
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> for LVM and the need to have it for an encrypted root. |
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> OTOH, if you put /usr, /home, /var, /tmp and all the others on LVM, you |
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> could just leave the root partition unencrypted, as it wouldn't contain |
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> anything sensitive. |
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I know it's not the safest thing to do, but I have the key for the other |
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volumes on the root volume, so that this is the only one for which I need a |
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passphrase. And no I can't put them on a USB stick, because USB is |
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(physically) defective on this Laptop :-( |
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> >> And from what I remember, you can't resize a mounted ext3 partition |
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> > You should refresh your memory, then :-) Those times are long over. |
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> I have googled a bit but I couldn't find any recent references for that |
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> except for a RedHat patch to 2.6.7. Specifically, e2fstools doesn't seem |
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> to mention online resizing at all. |
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> Could you give me a pointer? |
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Can't remember when e2fstools were dropped from Gentoo, but resize2fs is |
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part of e2fsprogs. |
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> > Do it right, then - use EVMS *SCNR* |
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> Any specific pros/contras? |
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The only contra I know is that EVMS currently (still) can't handle online |
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ext2/3 resize, but you can still do it manually as you would with pure LVM |
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anyway. (Or use a different fs). |
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Other than that it IMHO has only pros. Be it partitioning, sw raid, logical |
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volumes, fs creation, resizing, even mounting :-) - everything is done in |
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one single tool. |
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> From the homepage it looks rather complicated |
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Not more than LVM. The terminology is a bit different though, but once |
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you're used to it it is much simpler. I switched from LVM (1) to EVMS its |
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early stages (kernel 2.4) and never looked back. |
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Bye... |
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Dirk |
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