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Subject: Re: Avoiding LVM -
On Thu, 2013-04-04 at 12:41 -0500, Matthew J. Roth wrote
Am 06.04.2013 17:07, schrieb j.witvl...@mindef.nl:
If you worry about failures (loosing) the mem stick, perhaps you can put the
encrypted image on your own web-site...
Or keep an dd-copy of the stick in /tmp/random.tmp
and wonder that it is gone after tmpwatch has cleand /tmp
or with F18
Allegedly, on or about 06 April 2013, j.witvl...@mindef.nl sent:
So, a better advise is to simply encrypt the entire disk,
Yes.
And to keep sensitive info on an _also_ encrypted mem-stick.
Dunno. It's got to be much easier to lose a memory stick than an entire
computer. Or, to put that
On 04/06/2013 08:07 AM, j.witvl...@mindef.nl wrote:
and one that has a substantially higher likelihood of failure than a hard
drive. It was a bad recommendation on so many levels. Anyone who entrusts their
only copy of a valued file to a USB flash drive is certain to learn a lesson
the hard
Allegedly, on or about 04 April 2013, Joe Zeff sent:
...[snip a pile of stuff that has nothing to do with real security]...
having your whole file system encrypted is just holding up a big, red
sign telling everybody that you have something to hide
No, it's just called privacy, something that
On Thu, 2013-04-04 at 12:41 -0500, Matthew J. Roth wrote:
Joe Zeff wrote:
On 04/04/2013 08:45 AM, Bill Oliver wrote:
I take my laptop on the road a lot, and I have work stuff on it I don't
want the world to see. I don't encrypt the whole disk, but I have an
encrypted partitiion,
I take my laptop on the road a lot, and I have work stuff on it I don't want
the world to see. I don't encrypt the whole disk, but I have an encrypted
partitiion, and keep sensitive data on it.
The bottom line is that anybody who can touch your machine can own it, and can
own all the
On 04/04/2013 08:45 AM, Bill Oliver wrote:
I take my laptop on the road a lot, and I have work stuff on it I don't
want the world to see. I don't encrypt the whole disk, but I have an
encrypted partitiion, and keep sensitive data on it.
You might also consider keeping it on a flash drive
Yeah, I tried that, but ran into the issue of having to keep track of all the
extra bits of equipment, etc. that I had to travel with. For every extra flash
drive, ear bud, phone, pad, network gadget, etc. there's a small finite
positive probability that it will get left in a hotel room or
Joe Zeff wrote:
On 04/04/2013 08:45 AM, Bill Oliver wrote:
I take my laptop on the road a lot, and I have work stuff on it I don't
want the world to see. I don't encrypt the whole disk, but I have an
encrypted partitiion, and keep sensitive data on it.
You might also consider keeping
On 04/04/2013 05:09 AM, Craig White wrote:
For example, Mr. Zeff botched up his /home by trying to fuse it with an
older /boot partition and LVM could have fused them rather simply and
painlessly.
I myself have moved partitions around on hard drives and have easily
increased the size of
On 04/02/2013 08:39 PM, Bob Goodwin - Zuni, Virginia, USA wrote:
On 02/04/13 14:13, Joe Zeff wrote:
As a home user, I don't need to resize things dynamically, and LVM is the
solution to a problem I don't have.
Over the last couple of years I've managed to install Fedora a few times
On 04/04/2013 10:40 AM, Bill Oliver wrote:
Yeah, I tried that, but ran into the issue of having to keep track of
all the extra bits of equipment, etc. that I had to travel with. For
every extra flash drive, ear bud, phone, pad, network gadget, etc.
there's a small finite positive probability
On 04/04/2013 10:41 AM, Matthew J. Roth wrote:
As a warning to future readers, this is just bad advice because then the files
would be unencrypted on a device that is much easier to lose.
I get the impression that the OP's concern wasn't accidental loss, but
theft or otherwise unauthorized
On 4/2/2013 9:49 PM, Bob Goodwin - Zuni, Virginia, USA wrote:
On 02/04/13 20:12, Grzegorz Witkowski wrote:
Hi Bob,
Maybe this will help you to make a right decision:
9.13.5. Recommended Partitioning Scheme
On Tue, 02 Apr 2013 09:18:47 -0400
Lester M Petrie wrote:
I like to put /opt and /usr/local on separate partitions also, as that
way they don't have to be reloaded when I do a fresh install.
I've found that bind mounts are your friend.
I've got a SSD system disk with room for a couple of
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I think I can handle the next install without LVM.
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Afaicr LVM is the only option if you want to encrypt your entire disk.
Hw
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On 02/04/13 09:18, Lester M Petrie wrote:
I like to put /opt and /usr/local on separate partitions also, as that
way they don't have to be reloaded when I do a fresh install.
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Lester M Petrie
Those directories are empty here presently.
ll /opt
total 0
ll /usr/local
total 40
drwxr-xr-x.
On 03/04/13 10:56, j.witvl...@mindef.nl wrote:
I think I can handle the next install without LVM.
Afaicr LVM is the only option if you want to encrypt your entire disk.
Hw
Encryption seems like adding necessary complexity to a home computer
system? Do I need that?
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On 03/04/13 10:56, j.witvl...@mindef.nl wrote:
I think I can handle the next install without LVM.
Afaicr LVM is the only option if you want to encrypt your entire disk.
Hw
Encryption seems like adding UNnecessary complexity to a home computer
system? Do I need that? [my spell checker helped
On 04/03/13 23:19, Bob Goodwin - Zuni, Virginia, USA wrote:
On 02/04/13 09:18, Lester M Petrie wrote:
I like to put /opt and /usr/local on separate partitions also, as that way
they don't have to be reloaded when I do a fresh install.
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Lester M Petrie
Those directories are empty here
On 03/04/13 11:31, Ed Greshko wrote:
That is because you haven't put anything there.
I have plenty of stuff in /usr/local which I've built manually since they were
either home-grown or didn't have rpms to install. Put it there and it is
available to all users.
Yes I figured that, but
On 04/03/2013 05:28 PM, Bob Goodwin - Zuni, Virginia, USA wrote:
On 03/04/13 10:56, j.witvl...@mindef.nl wrote:
I think I can handle the next install without LVM.
Afaicr LVM is the only option if you want to encrypt your entire disk.
Hw
Encryption seems like adding UNnecessary complexity to
On 04/03/2013 10:33 AM, Tom Horsley wrote:
On Tue, 02 Apr 2013 09:18:47 -0400
Lester M Petrie wrote:
I like to put /opt and /usr/local on separate partitions also, as that
way they don't have to be reloaded when I do a fresh install.
I've found that bind mounts are your friend.
I've got a
Hi!
2013/4/3 Patrick Lists fedora-l...@puzzled.xs4all.nl:
That depends. If the box gets stolen and you don't mind that the thief can
see all your personal data then don't bother. If you do mind, encrypt your
personal data or the entire system. Since it's better to be safe than sorry,
I
On Tue, Apr 2, 2013 at 10:02 PM, Reindl Harald
h.rei...@thelounge.netwrote:
Hi Bob,
Maybe this will help you to make a right decision:
9.13.5. Recommended Partitioning Scheme
http://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/Fedora/18/html/Installation_Guide/s2-diskpartrecommend-x86.html
That is
On 04/03/13 23:41, Bob Goodwin - Zuni, Virginia, USA wrote:
On 03/04/13 11:31, Ed Greshko wrote:
That is because you haven't put anything there.
I have plenty of stuff in /usr/local which I've built manually since they
were either home-grown or didn't have rpms to install. Put it there
On Tue, 2013-04-02 at 14:39 -0400, Bob Goodwin - Zuni, Virginia, USA
wrote:
On 02/04/13 14:13, Joe Zeff wrote:
As a home user, I don't need to resize things dynamically, and LVM is
the solution to a problem I don't have.
I'm not sure where this concept sprang from but I think you could
On 02/04/13 14:13, Joe Zeff wrote:
As a home user, I don't need to resize things dynamically, and LVM is
the solution to a problem I don't have.
Over the last couple of years I've managed to install Fedora a few times
minus LVM but I never seem to get the directory structure optimized, in
Am 02.04.2013 20:39, schrieb Bob Goodwin - Zuni:
On 02/04/13 14:13, Joe Zeff wrote:
As a home user, I don't need to resize things dynamically, and LVM is the
solution to a problem I don't have.
Over the last couple of years I've managed to install Fedora a few times
minus LVM but I
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Subject: Avoiding LVM -
On 02/04/13 14:13, Joe Zeff wrote:
As a home user, I don't need to resize things dynamically, and LVM is
the solution to a problem I don't have.
Over the last couple of years I've managed to install Fedora a few times
minus LVM but I never seem
On Tue, 02 Apr 2013 14:39:06 -0400
Bob Goodwin - Zuni, Virginia, USA wrote:
What I need is an example of a simple directory tree with the proper
sizes.
What is wrong with one partition named / on whole disk? Everything
has room to grow then :-).
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Am 02.04.2013 20:52, schrieb Tom Horsley:
On Tue, 02 Apr 2013 14:39:06 -0400
Bob Goodwin - Zuni, Virginia, USA wrote:
What I need is an example of a simple directory tree with the proper
sizes.
What is wrong with one partition named / on whole disk? Everything
has room to grow then
On 02/04/13 14:39, Bob Goodwin - Zuni, Virginia, USA wrote:
What I need is an example of a simple directory tree with the proper
sizes. I may not get to try it until F-19 is released but would like
to have an example on hand, might be inspired to try redoing an F-18
LVM installation.
Bob
to recommend
something to all people without knowing their use case. I agree that for
some deployments separate root and data partition is must have but not
for all. I have a lot of qemu/kvm images that for simplicity only have
two partitions (root and swap) or sometimes root only.
About avoiding LVM
Am 02.04.2013 22:43, schrieb Mateusz Marzantowicz:
On 02.04.2013 20:57, Reindl Harald wrote:
Am 02.04.2013 20:52, schrieb Tom Horsley:
On Tue, 02 Apr 2013 14:39:06 -0400
Bob Goodwin - Zuni, Virginia, USA wrote:
What I need is an example of a simple directory tree with the proper
sizes.
On Tue, Apr 2, 2013 at 10:02 PM, Reindl Harald h.rei...@thelounge.netwrote:
Am 02.04.2013 22:43, schrieb Mateusz Marzantowicz:
On 02.04.2013 20:57, Reindl Harald wrote:
Am 02.04.2013 20:52, schrieb Tom Horsley:
On Tue, 02 Apr 2013 14:39:06 -0400
Bob Goodwin - Zuni, Virginia, USA
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