Hi Andrew, (How is the Isle of the Long White Cloud?)
Are the encrypted disks separate? (ed. sdc,sdd?) If so, you could run it in a hook script with just the drives you want to partition. Using the '-D' option allows you to set the disks. Regards, Paul Schulz On Wed, 21 Sep 2016 at 10:43 Andrew Ruthven <and...@etc.gen.nz> wrote: > Hey, > > I'm happily creating encrypted file systems now, which is great, but > I'd like to look forward to having to rebuild the system. The encrypted > file systems are for data storage only. Ideally if we rebuild the > server, the data storage disks would be left alone. > > I've run into three problems here: > > 1) preserve for LUKS isn't supported. > 2) preserve_always requires the disks to already be configured and > won't change them. > 3) preserve_reinstall requires you to set a class for the first build. > > To resolve 1, ideally setup-storage would honour preserve flags and let > me worry about the crypt files etc. > > But the behaviour with 2 & 3 are a problem. Ideally we'd have > lazyformat back. ;) I don't want to have to set any classes for the > first build, or modify the disk_config for future builds. > > I could potentially have a class file that looks to see if a partition > exists on the first hard drive, and if it doesn't exist, set the > INITIAL class. But that seems a bit brittle to me. > > How are others handling that situation? > > Cheers, > Andrew > > -- > Andrew Ruthven, Wellington, New Zealand > and...@etc.gen.nz | linux.conf.au 2017, Hobart, AU > New Zealand's only Cloud: | The Future of Open Source > https://catalyst.net.nz/cloud | http://linux.conf.au > > > >