After laying with Kubuntu over the last few months I have come to encrypting my disks, but could with a little help.
I currently have the following:
sda1 - 100 M - win 7 (system partition) - boot flag
sda2 - 48.73 G - win 7 x64 (Truecrypt)
sda3 - 203.95 M - /boot
sda4 --- extended part ---
-sda5 99.98 G - crypt /root (Kubuntu 12.10 x64)
sdb1 1.36 T - NTFS - file storage
sdc1 ---extended part ---
-sdc5 - 1.86 G - unformatted (left over from previous setup)
-sdc6 - 0.91 T - crypt /home
Whilst I was fighting with the Kubuntu installer about keyfiles as well as arguing with GRUB 2 I absent mindlessly told /root to take up the remaining space on the disk instead of just using 20 G.
I ideally wanted to just shrink the partition but there seems to be no way way to do this and having got part way into and having trouble, I came to the conclusion that it might just be easier to reinstall /root.
If I have to reinstall windows as well then that's not too bad as there is noting on it and its only a baisc install with drivers and a couple of programs, so wouldn't take too tong.
So I'm hoping I can just reinstall /root, point to the existing encrypted (LUKs) /home and sling GRUB back on /sda3.
The question is I don't know if it will work like that and what needs to be done with Truecrypt and will I spend the evening swearing at GRUB again?
Unless there is a simple way to do a resize that I have missed?
To give some additional background for clarity I had to install Kubuntu from the 12.04 x64 alt DVD and upgrade as 12.10 kept giving me error about not being able to create keyfiles. Also I have not used a LVM.
If people are not able to help then I would be grateful to be pointed in the right direction to some other resources/ forum that may be able to.
Thanks in anticipation.
I currently have the following:
sda1 - 100 M - win 7 (system partition) - boot flag
sda2 - 48.73 G - win 7 x64 (Truecrypt)
sda3 - 203.95 M - /boot
sda4 --- extended part ---
-sda5 99.98 G - crypt /root (Kubuntu 12.10 x64)
sdb1 1.36 T - NTFS - file storage
sdc1 ---extended part ---
-sdc5 - 1.86 G - unformatted (left over from previous setup)
-sdc6 - 0.91 T - crypt /home
Whilst I was fighting with the Kubuntu installer about keyfiles as well as arguing with GRUB 2 I absent mindlessly told /root to take up the remaining space on the disk instead of just using 20 G.
I ideally wanted to just shrink the partition but there seems to be no way way to do this and having got part way into and having trouble, I came to the conclusion that it might just be easier to reinstall /root.
If I have to reinstall windows as well then that's not too bad as there is noting on it and its only a baisc install with drivers and a couple of programs, so wouldn't take too tong.
So I'm hoping I can just reinstall /root, point to the existing encrypted (LUKs) /home and sling GRUB back on /sda3.
The question is I don't know if it will work like that and what needs to be done with Truecrypt and will I spend the evening swearing at GRUB again?
Unless there is a simple way to do a resize that I have missed?
To give some additional background for clarity I had to install Kubuntu from the 12.04 x64 alt DVD and upgrade as 12.10 kept giving me error about not being able to create keyfiles. Also I have not used a LVM.
If people are not able to help then I would be grateful to be pointed in the right direction to some other resources/ forum that may be able to.
Thanks in anticipation.