• tomiant@piefed.social
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    2 days 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.

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      16 hours ago

      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.

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        23 hours ago

        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.

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        2 days ago

        What? Btrfs subvolumes are basically the same as logical volumes. That’s somewhat redundant.

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          16 hours ago

          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.