Re: Debian full disk encryption

2013-05-06 Thread Brad Alexander
Concur with Bob. I have been using encrypted drives for many years now. The only differences for me are that I have a separate swap partition, but then you end up having to encrypt that separately, and cannot take advantage of putting swap inside of the LVM. My next encrypted build will remedy this

Re: Debian full disk encryption

2013-05-05 Thread Christoph Anton Mitterer
Trim is disabled peer default for security reasons. Cheers, Chris. green schrieb: >John Thoe wrote at 2013-05-05 19:45 -0500: >> For starters, I am using a laptop for SSD so I read that using LUKS >> is not a good option since it disables TRIM. > >I am using cryptsetup, LUKS, and ext4 on a SS

Re: Debian full disk encryption

2013-05-05 Thread green
John Thoe wrote at 2013-05-05 19:45 -0500: > For starters, I am using a laptop for SSD so I read that using LUKS > is not a good option since it disables TRIM. I am using cryptsetup, LUKS, and ext4 on a SSD; TRIM seems to work. At least, fstrim seems to work as expected. Note that this is with wh

Re: Debian full disk encryption

2013-05-05 Thread Bob Proulx
John Thoe wrote: > I am trying to set up full disk encryption for Debian. There are a > lot of options available and I cannot choose which one to use.. > > For starters, I am using a laptop for SSD so I read that using LUKS > is not a good option since it disables TRIM. > > Anyways, I came across