rhkra...@gmail.com wrote:
> Darn, please ignore the previous message -- didn't mean to send, was
> working on a draft, meant to save as a draft instead of send.
>
> (Of course, if you want to reply, feel free.)
.
> But in any case, I'm not sure about booting Grub on an SSD from the
> BIOS, because AIUI Grub uses sector addresses to find its core.img,
> and AIUI sectors get shuffled around by the SSD controller.
That shuffling is purely internal and hence completely invisible
(barring bugs and the need to s
On Thu 10 Jun 2021 at 23:43:12 (-0700), David Christensen wrote:
> On 6/10/21 9:31 PM, David Wright wrote:
> > I'm about to install buster or bullseye on a newly acquired laptop
> > with an SSD (a first for me). I'm intending to clean (zero or
> > randomise) the entire drive with dd before I start,
On 6/11/21 7:59 AM, Polyna-Maude Racicot-Summerside wrote:
Hi,
On 2021-06-11 12:31 a.m., David Wright wrote:
I'm about to install buster or bullseye on a newly acquired laptop
with an SSD (a first for me). I'm intending to clean (zero or
randomise) the entire drive with dd before I start, and a
On 6/11/21 6:01 AM, Reco wrote:
On Fri, Jun 11, 2021 at 05:55:02AM -0700, David Christensen wrote:
On 6/10/21 11:49 PM, Reco wrote:
On Thu, Jun 10, 2021 at 11:43:12PM -0700, David Christensen wrote:
I don't bother with the 'discard' option in /etc/fstab, but perhaps I
should. The fstab(5) and
On Thu, Jun 10, 2021 at 11:31:07PM -0500, David Wright wrote:
I'm about to install buster or bullseye on a newly acquired laptop
with an SSD (a first for me). I'm intending to clean (zero or
randomise) the entire drive with dd before I start, and am
interested in any pitfalls with that.
Do not
On Fri, Jun 11, 2021 at 06:19:37PM +0300, Reco wrote:
Encryption costs me whopping 13 MB/s out of 385.
Right now on my desktop I can read about 1.4GByte/s on an unencrypted
partition and 1.3Gbyte/s on an encrypted partition. Whether that's
significant is subjective.
Hi.
On Fri, Jun 11, 2021 at 10:59:21AM -0400, Polyna-Maude Racicot-Summerside wrote:
> Because yes there's a cost and it's speed.
I call this cost acceptable:
# pv /dev/sda3 > /dev/zero
^C50GiB 0:00:04 [ 385MiB/s]
# cryptsetup status /dev/mapper/sda3_crypt
/dev/mapper/sda3_crypt is ac
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-
Hash: SHA256
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On Thursday, June 10th, 2021 at 10:31 PM, David Wright
wrote:
> I'm intending to clean (zero or
> randomise) the entire drive with dd before I start
Have you considered dban? Takes a while, but works real goo
Darn, please ignore the previous message -- didn't mean to send, was working
on a draft, meant to save as a draft instead of send.
(Of course, if you want to reply, feel free.)
On Friday, June 11, 2021 11:01:40 AM rhkra...@gmail.com wrote:
> On Friday, June 11, 2021 02:49:03 AM Reco wrote:
> > O
On Fri, Jun 11, 2021 at 11:01:40AM -0400, rhkra...@gmail.com wrote:
> On Friday, June 11, 2021 02:49:03 AM Reco wrote:
> > On Thu, Jun 10, 2021 at 11:43:12PM -0700, David Christensen wrote:
> > > I don't bother with the 'discard' option in /etc/fstab, but perhaps I
> > > should. The fstab(5) and m
On Friday, June 11, 2021 02:49:03 AM Reco wrote:
> On Thu, Jun 10, 2021 at 11:43:12PM -0700, David Christensen wrote:
> > I don't bother with the 'discard' option in /etc/fstab, but perhaps I
> > should. The fstab(5) and mount(8) manual pages are unclear if
> > 'discard' applies to swap or ext4.
>
Hi,
On 2021-06-11 12:31 a.m., David Wright wrote:
> I'm about to install buster or bullseye on a newly acquired laptop
> with an SSD (a first for me). I'm intending to clean (zero or
> randomise) the entire drive with dd before I start, and am
> interested in any pitfalls with that.
>
> I will al
On Fri, Jun 11, 2021 at 05:55:02AM -0700, David Christensen wrote:
> On 6/10/21 11:49 PM, Reco wrote:
> > On Thu, Jun 10, 2021 at 11:43:12PM -0700, David Christensen wrote:
> > > I don't bother with the 'discard' option in /etc/fstab, but perhaps I
> > > should. The fstab(5) and mount(8) manual pa
On 6/10/21 11:49 PM, Reco wrote:
Hi.
On Thu, Jun 10, 2021 at 11:43:12PM -0700, David Christensen wrote:
I don't bother with the 'discard' option in /etc/fstab, but perhaps I
should. The fstab(5) and mount(8) manual pages are unclear if
'discard' applies to swap or ext4.
swapon(8):
On Thu, Jun 10, 2021 at 11:31:07PM -0500, David Wright wrote:
> I'm about to install buster or bullseye on a newly acquired laptop
> with an SSD (a first for me). I'm intending to clean (zero or
> randomise) the entire drive with dd before I start, and am
> interested in any pitfalls with that.
>
Hi.
On Thu, Jun 10, 2021 at 11:43:12PM -0700, David Christensen wrote:
> I don't bother with the 'discard' option in /etc/fstab, but perhaps I
> should. The fstab(5) and mount(8) manual pages are unclear if
> 'discard' applies to swap or ext4.
swapon(8):
-d, --discard[=policy]
On 6/10/21 9:31 PM, David Wright wrote:
I'm about to install buster or bullseye on a newly acquired laptop
with an SSD (a first for me). I'm intending to clean (zero or
randomise) the entire drive with dd before I start, and am
interested in any pitfalls with that.
I will also encrypt the new /h
David Wright wrote:
...
> I don't work for the CIA, so "basic" erasure methods are sufficient,
> ie so-called logical and digital sanitisation, but not analogue
> sanitisation/purging. I'm just encrypting stuff like personal bank
> records etc, and not looking for anything like plausible deniabili
On 11/6/21 12:31 pm, David Wright wrote:
I'm about to install buster or bullseye on a newly acquired laptop
with an SSD (a first for me). I'm intending to clean (zero or
randomise) the entire drive with dd before I start, and am
interested in any pitfalls with that.
I will also encrypt the new
I'm about to install buster or bullseye on a newly acquired laptop
with an SSD (a first for me). I'm intending to clean (zero or
randomise) the entire drive with dd before I start, and am
interested in any pitfalls with that.
I will also encrypt the new /home partition, but for the remaining
parti
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