Re: [gentoo-user] LVM and moving things around

2022-03-27 Thread Dale
Wols Lists wrote: > On 27/03/2022 22:34, Dale wrote: >> I don't have RAID at all.  Just three drives being used as /home on >> LVM.  I should use RAID but I have a backup that gets done each week.  I >> wouldn't lose much even if it crashed and burned badly.  The biggest >> loss might would be emai

Re: [gentoo-user] LVM and moving things around

2022-03-27 Thread Wols Lists
On 27/03/2022 22:34, Dale wrote: I don't have RAID at all.  Just three drives being used as /home on LVM.  I should use RAID but I have a backup that gets done each week.  I wouldn't lose much even if it crashed and burned badly.  The biggest loss might would be emails.  I think I have gmail set

Re: [gentoo-user] LVM and moving things around

2022-03-27 Thread Dale
Michael wrote: > On Sunday, 27 March 2022 22:04:45 BST Dale wrote: >> >> That's sort of what I'm going to do. I'm going to divide things into >> sections with some encrypted and some not. > I wonder if all you want to do is to encrypt some directories on your /home, > then a different level of en

Re: [gentoo-user] LVM and moving things around

2022-03-27 Thread Miles Rout
On Sun, Mar 27, 2022 at 04:04:45PM -0500, Dale wrote: > Based on the reply from Rich, thanks for the info, cryptsetup is just a > upper level of dm-crypt.  Basically, cryptsetup just has some user > friendly bits added on top of it.  Security wise, should be secure > either way.  To be clear, cryp

Re: [gentoo-user] LVM and moving things around

2022-03-27 Thread Michael
On Sunday, 27 March 2022 22:04:45 BST Dale wrote: > Wol wrote: > > My three 3TB partitions are raided, and /dev/md/home is my PV. I've > > only allocated the space to LVs that they need, so I could probably > > shrink the PV and remove a drive without needing to mess about with my > > LVs at all. I

Re: [gentoo-user] Firefox to LOCalc characterset translation

2022-03-27 Thread tastytea
On 2022-03-27 23:13+0100 Michael wrote: > On Sunday, 27 March 2022 23:04:21 BST tastytea wrote: > > On 2022-03-27 22:35+0100 Michael wrote: > > > I can't explain why the following cut 'n paste problem happens > > > when I select some symbols within text in Firefox and then try to > > > insert

Re: [gentoo-user] Firefox to LOCalc characterset translation

2022-03-27 Thread Michael
On Sunday, 27 March 2022 23:04:21 BST tastytea wrote: > On 2022-03-27 22:35+0100 Michael wrote: > > I can't explain why the following cut 'n paste problem happens when I > > select some symbols within text in Firefox and then try to insert by > > middle-click in LibreOffice Calc. > > > > If I sel

Re: [gentoo-user] Firefox to LOCalc characterset translation

2022-03-27 Thread tastytea
On 2022-03-27 22:35+0100 Michael wrote: > I can't explain why the following cut 'n paste problem happens when I > select some symbols within text in Firefox and then try to insert by > middle-click in LibreOffice Calc. > > If I select the symbols for £ (GBP), or € (Euro) and middle click > upon

[gentoo-user] Firefox to LOCalc characterset translation

2022-03-27 Thread Michael
I can't explain why the following cut 'n paste problem happens when I select some symbols within text in Firefox and then try to insert by middle-click in LibreOffice Calc. If I select the symbols for £ (GBP), or € (Euro) and middle click upon a cell in LOCalc, a window pops up asking "Select t

Re: [gentoo-user] LVM and moving things around

2022-03-27 Thread Dale
Wol wrote: > On 27/03/2022 21:36, Wol wrote: >> I don't know either. I'm just far more familiar with the dm/md layer >> because I run md-raid over dm-integrity. Hence dm-crypt. >> >> Is cryptsetup a layer in its own right, or part of lvm? I prefer the >> Unix "use several tools each of which does o

Re: [gentoo-user] LVM and moving things around

2022-03-27 Thread Wol
On 27/03/2022 21:36, Wol wrote: I don't know either. I'm just far more familiar with the dm/md layer because I run md-raid over dm-integrity. Hence dm-crypt. Is cryptsetup a layer in its own right, or part of lvm? I prefer the Unix "use several tools each of which does one thing well", other p

Re: [gentoo-user] LVM and moving things around

2022-03-27 Thread Dale
Wol wrote: > On 27/03/2022 21:13, Dale wrote: >> Wol wrote: >>> On 27/03/2022 20:17, Dale wrote: Howdy, I sort of started this on another thread but wanted to nail a few things down first.  I'm wanting to encrypt some parts of my data on /home. This is what I got hard

Re: [gentoo-user] LVM and moving things around

2022-03-27 Thread Wol
On 27/03/2022 21:13, Dale wrote: Wol wrote: On 27/03/2022 20:17, Dale wrote: Howdy, I sort of started this on another thread but wanted to nail a few things down first.  I'm wanting to encrypt some parts of my data on /home. This is what I got hard drive wise. root@fireball / # pvs    PV   

Re: [gentoo-user] LVM and moving things around

2022-03-27 Thread Rich Freeman
On Sun, Mar 27, 2022 at 4:13 PM Dale wrote: > > What is the advantage of dm-crypt over cryptsetup? I've learned how to > use cryptsetup with my external drive so was hoping to stick with what I > already know. Unless there is a advantage to dm-crypt. So, I suspect that terms are being used loos

Re: [gentoo-user] LVM and moving things around

2022-03-27 Thread Dale
Wol wrote: > On 27/03/2022 20:17, Dale wrote: >> Howdy, >> >> I sort of started this on another thread but wanted to nail a few things >> down first.  I'm wanting to encrypt some parts of my data on /home. >> This is what I got hard drive wise. >> >> >> root@fireball / # pvs >>    PV VG

Re: [gentoo-user] LVM and moving things around

2022-03-27 Thread Wol
On 27/03/2022 20:17, Dale wrote: Howdy, I sort of started this on another thread but wanted to nail a few things down first.  I'm wanting to encrypt some parts of my data on /home. This is what I got hard drive wise. root@fireball / # pvs   PV VG Fmt  Attr PSize    PFree   /dev/s

[gentoo-user] LVM and moving things around

2022-03-27 Thread Dale
Howdy, I sort of started this on another thread but wanted to nail a few things down first.  I'm wanting to encrypt some parts of my data on /home.  This is what I got hard drive wise. root@fireball / # pvs   PV VG Fmt  Attr PSize    PFree   /dev/sda7  OS lvm2 a--  <124.46g 21.39