Re: Encrypted drive

On Mi, 26 iun 13, 10:27:53, Arun Khan wrote: > On Wed, Jun 26, 2013 at 9:32 AM, David Christensen > wrote: > > If you can figure out how to boot from USB and run from RAM, then omitting a > > system drive could work. Otherwise, USB drives were never intended to be > > system drives. You want an

Re: Encrypted drive

On Wed, Jun 26, 2013 at 2:57 AM, Brad Alexander wrote: > > What I was considering am using a 16GB thumb drive for the OS, then > encrypting and using the 1.5TB and 3TB for swap, /var, /tmp, and the rest > for data. > > Toward that end, I have a few questions. > > * Is using a thumb drive for / an

Re: Encrypted drive

On Wed, Jun 26, 2013 at 9:32 AM, David Christensen wrote: > If you can figure out how to boot from USB and run from RAM, then omitting a > system drive could work. Otherwise, USB drives were never intended to be > system drives. You want an SSD. It depends on the use case scenario. FWIW, I am

Re: Encrypted drive

On 06/25/13 14:27, Brad Alexander wrote: I'm going to be adding a 3TB drive to my fileserver, but I want to use LUKS encryption. The fileserver is kinda long in the tooth, a 2.8GHz P4 with 2GB of RAM. The machine has two drive slots, currently with an 80GB and a 1.5TB drive. What I was considerin

Re: Encrypted drive

On 6/26/13, Brad Alexander wrote: > I'm going to be adding a 3TB drive to my fileserver, but I want to use LUKS > encryption. The fileserver is kinda long in the tooth, a 2.8GHz P4 with 2GB > of RAM. Your mobo should be adequate, for just a home file server. > The machine has two drive slots, cu

Re: Encrypted drive

> * Is using a thumb drive for / and /usr a bad idea? Would it be > better to set up the 1.5 TB with two VGs, one for the OS and one for > data? I would never use a thumb drive for / I think it is slow, and perhaps unreliable greetings -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debia