Am Dienstag, 4. September 2007 schrieb ext Remy Blank: > Dirk Heinrichs wrote: > >> Do you even need one? > > > > Yes, I do. Because I have / on a logical volume which may (in case of a > > laptop) also be encrypted. > > Right. I think I might have confused the necessity to have an initramfs > for LVM and the need to have it for an encrypted root. > > OTOH, if you put /usr, /home, /var, /tmp and all the others on LVM, you > could just leave the root partition unencrypted, as it wouldn't contain > anything sensitive.
I know it's not the safest thing to do, but I have the key for the other
volumes on the root volume, so that this is the only one for which I need a
passphrase. And no I can't put them on a USB stick, because USB is
(physically) defective on this Laptop :-(
> >> And from what I remember, you can't resize a mounted ext3 partition
> >
> > You should refresh your memory, then :-) Those times are long over.
>
> I have googled a bit but I couldn't find any recent references for that
> except for a RedHat patch to 2.6.7. Specifically, e2fstools doesn't seem
> to mention online resizing at all.
>
> Could you give me a pointer?
Can't remember when e2fstools were dropped from Gentoo, but resize2fs is
part of e2fsprogs.
> > Do it right, then - use EVMS *SCNR*
>
> Any specific pros/contras?
The only contra I know is that EVMS currently (still) can't handle online
ext2/3 resize, but you can still do it manually as you would with pure LVM
anyway. (Or use a different fs).
Other than that it IMHO has only pros. Be it partitioning, sw raid, logical
volumes, fs creation, resizing, even mounting :-) - everything is done in
one single tool.
> From the homepage it looks rather complicated
Not more than LVM. The terminology is a bit different though, but once
you're used to it it is much simpler. I switched from LVM (1) to EVMS its
early stages (kernel 2.4) and never looked back.
Bye...
Dirk
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