On Wed, 2021-07-28 at 07:54 -0400, Greg Wooledge wrote: > On Tue, Jul 27, 2021 at 10:05:54PM -0600, Jupiter777 wrote: > > so loop-with-no-exit went like: > > > > > > -- installer recognized the disk, OK > > > > -- did the 1gb /boot ext2 non-encrypted configured , OK /dev/sda7 > > > > -- 150gb partition, planned to be / with everything in it, > > recognized by installer, OK /dev/sda6 > > > > -- configured /dev/sda6 to be / and mount-point / too , OK > > > > -- went inside the lvm config/manager .... > > > > -- added volume group vg1 off of /dev/sda6 , OK > > > > -- added logical volume lv1 (inside vg1) , OK > > I've never done disk encryption, so I can only speak to the LVM parts > of this. > > If you're planning to use LVM for everything except /boot, then your > third and fourth steps above are incorrect. You don't want to create > a regular root file system on sda6 if you're planning to use sda6 for LVM. > > What you want to do instead is: > > 1) Create your /boot partition + file system as you did. > > 2) Create a partition to hold the LVM subsystem, but do not mount it. > > 3) Go into the LVM subsystem, and turn your empty partition into a > volume group. > > 4) Create logical volumes within the VG for each file system you want, > including root. > > However, since you were trying to do encryption as well, you should > definitely look for advice from someone who has done that.
Between steps 2) and 3) you encrypt the partition. -- Tixy