I'm planning to do a fresh install with the upcoming new release. I've been upgrading over the last six or so releases so I figure it's time for a fresh start. I've got backups and everything ready but I want to go with full disk encryption this time. I've never used it under Linux. I used it during my Windows days and I do use an encrypted external drive for my personal stuff via verycrypt. However, despite my attempts to fully understand full disk encryption, I'm confused on certain issues.
- Issue no .1 is it true that full disk encryption uses LVM and if so, if one has a partitioned drive with another OS, what happens then?
- Issue no. 2 - ever since I started using Linux, I've always been in the habit of using manual partitioning, always leaving "/home" on a separate partition. It makes is much simpler for re-installs should something really go wrong as all my configuration settings would be kept. But again, I'm told that this isn't possible as full disk encryption uses LVM.