Hi folks, My move from windows to xubuntu is final (lol)... preparing this samsung r20 to be my working laptop and all's going like a breeze :)
I do of course have more than a million questions now, which I am quite happily answering through studying the best I can at my own pace. But I feel that what works best for me is to start from scratch, from the fundamentals, so I'm studying the Linux filesystem structure, etc. And there is one thing that is bugging me and I can't understand, so any help - when time permits it - will be more than welcome. OK, Windows 7 is forever gone and I made of the whole laptop a strictly Xubuntu Xfce machine. During the install, I used the option to encrypt the disk for extra security. When I boot up, it asks me for the password, I type it in, it says that crypt key was successful, voila, all works like a charm haha... But... when I then fired Gparted to se the structure graphically and start to try to understand it all, I noticed two things that are confusing me: 1) The structure of my hard disk now shows as: (sorry, don't know yet how to take a screen shot and then paste it here... will get there soon I hope) /dev/sda1 ext2 /boot 487.00MiB /dev/sda2 extended 111.31GiB /dev/sda5 crypt.luks 111.31GiB Ok, I understand that sda1 ext2 is the type of fylesystem and this is a 487MiB boot partition But the sda5 partition which is the whole rest of the hard disk, shows graphically in Gparted as inside the sda2 extended partition, which is also the same size of sda5, coz it is the whole rest of the hard disk. So... why do I have sda2 and sda5? The way I see it, the crypt.luks is the encrypted partition, which is what I want for the whole disk, and for the little I understand so far, I have the boot and the extended partition. Why does it create an extended partition and then it creates an encrypted partition inside the extended one, of the exact same size? I would have expected to just have /dev/sda2 extended crypt.luks and not sda2 and sda5... Can anyone please find the patience to explain this to me when you have a chance? Thanks upfront 2) On the /dev/sda5, I have a yellow warning triangle in front of it (in Gparted) and when I right click and select Information, it says: Warning: Linux Unified Key Setup encryption is not yet supported So I'm a bit confused here... does this mean that I'm only beneffiting from having an extra password safety at boot up time and the disk is actually not encrypted (which confuses me because when I give the correct password it says that crypt key has been successful), or is this referring to some sort of Key management system that is not yet supported, but the disk is indeed encrypted? Sorry bothering you with this, but just confused and to be absolutely honest, have been so busy hunting for a job that haven't had time yet to dig into the documentation... good this is got a job yesterday and I'm now getting this little old machine ready to be my working horse at work - damn, it works soooo much faster and better with xubuntu than it ever worked with windows, haha.... can't get enough of it, feel like a little boy with a spanky new shinny toy hahaha... Thank you upfront for any clarification on the above Kind regards to all Joao -- xubuntu-users mailing list [email protected] Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/xubuntu-users
