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Only thing I find annoying with full volume LUKS encryption is that it makes it difficult to resize partitions, it’s a whole thing, but it’s a minor hassle and not something I’d do every day anyway.
I have the page with instructions for this prominently bookmarked because it was such a nightmare to figure out the last time I migrated my OS to a differently sized drive.
VeraCrypt solves this issue. I leave my main OS unencrypted then simply store veracrypt partitions to the size I need and put files inside that as needed. I’ve dealt with resizing luks partitions and its not worth it. Especially if you build, maintain, or otherwise tinker with you system.
Your correct. It is redundant. I think I needed the lvm layer to get an installer to recognize the luks partition. Can’t remember if it’s Pop or Fedora. That installer bug might be fixed now though. One day I’ll check and update my drive so its just using btrfs on luks.
Seems like every week there is another reason why I’m thankful I switched to Linux a few years ago.
Only thing I find annoying with full volume LUKS encryption is that it makes it difficult to resize partitions, it’s a whole thing, but it’s a minor hassle and not something I’d do every day anyway.
I have the page with instructions for this prominently bookmarked because it was such a nightmare to figure out the last time I migrated my OS to a differently sized drive.
I like to use btrfs subvolumes inside a luks lvm volume for this reason.
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VeraCrypt solves this issue. I leave my main OS unencrypted then simply store veracrypt partitions to the size I need and put files inside that as needed. I’ve dealt with resizing luks partitions and its not worth it. Especially if you build, maintain, or otherwise tinker with you system.
I feel like a hermit stumbling upon other hermits complaining about hermit stuff.
What? Btrfs subvolumes are basically the same as logical volumes. That’s somewhat redundant.
Your correct. It is redundant. I think I needed the lvm layer to get an installer to recognize the luks partition. Can’t remember if it’s Pop or Fedora. That installer bug might be fixed now though. One day I’ll check and update my drive so its just using btrfs on luks.
Why not just encrypt the whole drive and then use virtual partitions within the encryption?
Because I twin boot other OSs