encrypting /home partition post-install

Sam Varshavchik mrsam at courier-mta.com
Mon Nov 30 12:01:54 UTC 2015


Roberto Ragusa writes:

> On 11/29/2015 10:19 PM, Sam Varshavchik wrote:
>
> > I really don't understand why Fedora is still foisting all the overhead of  
> LVM on everyone, by default. I would tend to think that for typical use  
> cases, LVM brings absolutely nothing value-added. I would expect that, with  
> most use cases, people install Fedora with the default filesystem layout,  
> and never have the need to move or grow their existing partitions.
>
> What overhead? You gain flexibility with nearly zero overhead.

What "flexibility"? Can you explain to me exactly what "flexibility" LVM  
brings to the table for 95% of users who, after installing Fedora, never  
have any new disks added to the machine, and never need to touch anything  
related to the disk layout?


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