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From: David W Noon <dwnoon@××××××××.com>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Full disk encryption
Date: Wed, 30 Nov 2011 20:30:10
Message-Id: 20111130202828.34f30c74@karnak.local
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Full disk encryption by Dale
1 On Wed, 30 Nov 2011 12:31:00 -0600, Dale wrote about Re: [gentoo-user]
2 Re: Full disk encryption:
3
4 [snip]
5 > I tried making a init thingy and after about 20 failed reboots, I
6 > scraped the idea. I was trying to follow the howto on the Gentoo
7 > wiki I think. The unofficial wiki.
8
9 I posted a couple of months ago that you should "watch this space" for a
10 small and simple initramfs solution. That still applies.
11
12 I have a working initramfs layout, but currently it is too large
13 (>32MiB) for my /boot partition. The problem package is e2fsprogs, as
14 it requires dynamic linkage and, consequently, a full-sized glibc.
15 This sucks, so I need to patch the Makefile(s) to build a more sensible
16 set of executables for an initramfs.
17
18 All of the code I have written myself compiles and links statically,
19 typically using klibc, so my finished code is tiny.
20
21 I haven't been working on this for a couple of months now, because the
22 need for it is not really pressing. The assertion that udev would
23 require /usr and /var (plus the kitchen sink) really soon is unfounded,
24 at least for those of us who run more elderly hardware.
25
26 Anyhow, when I'm finished there will be a zsh script that will build an
27 initramfs image, and even install it to /boot, with a single command.
28 --
29 Regards,
30
31 Dave [RLU #314465]
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33 dwnoon@××××××××.com (David W Noon)
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Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Full disk encryption Neil Bothwick <neil@××××××××××.uk>
[gentoo-user] Re: Re: Full disk encryption Jack Byer <ftn768@×××××.com>
Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Full disk encryption Pandu Poluan <pandu@××××××.info>