[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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