Installing Fedora with LVM and LUKS, using the encryption layer on top of the LVM layer.

Bruno Wolff III bruno at wolff.to
Mon Jul 18 11:46:45 UTC 2011


On Mon, Jul 18, 2011 at 21:51:01 +1000,
  yudi v <yudi.tux at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> fine without any issues and I only have to enter the pass phrase once. Now I
> would like to change this setup with the LVM layer below the LUKS layer.
> That way I do not have to worry about decrypting 500Gb at every boot.

This won't affect that unless you are only going to encrypt some of the
LVs (e.g. just /home).

>  I would like to know if there is a way to decrypt all the encrypted LVs
> with one pass phrase.

If you use the same passphrase for the different encrypted devices you
will only need to enter it once (well, twice for now because of a bug
with handing off the passphrase to plymouth).


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