[clue] revisiting boot partition and LVM + grub

David L. Anselmi anselmi at anselmi.us
Mon Mar 12 18:20:41 MDT 2012


Kevin Fenzi wrote:
> There's still one reason for a seperate /boot these days:
>
> encrypted / parition. You need boot to be available and unencrypted so
> you can load an initrd to unlock your encrypted root partition. ;)

Is there a reason why you'd want the stock files under / (/etc, /usr, /var, /bin, /lib, etc) to be 
encrypted?  Other than the simplicity of using one partition for those and the stuff you care about?

Dave


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