Hey MHVLUG'ers out there!
My season of lacrosse finally ended, so I'm hard back at work with
learning more about GNU/Linux, UNIX, and computers in general!
I've been meaning to learn more about full-partition-encryption [the
most advanced prior I've used was truecrypt for MySQL database backups],
so took to reading a few things on dm-crypt and LUKS for LVM2. This is
all on a building-gentoo system.
I have a question though, and hope someone out there can explain it
a little better. I understand that I need an initramfs, initrd, or one
of those [things? I'm not quite sure what to call them even!] since I
have my root partition encrypted. I know busybox is used for this kind
of thing, but how do I exactly go about it? I've found a few guides to
it, but I'm not quite sure what ELSE I need to include other than the
busybox binary, or even how to force grub to use it. I also have no
idea how to have IT load my other partitions and use them as the primary
[since I wanted my busybox compact, it holds very few tools that could
actually help my full-blown-setup system]. Also, I've read about
uclibC-- do I need a C library to be included with busybox? Is one
already? If so, can I have it use uclibC while my real system still
uses GlibC?
Thanks in advance!
Your Linux Newbie,
Travis.
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