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Re: which package to file a bug report ?

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Marco Moock:
> Am 22.02.2024 um 13:18:48 Uhr schrieb Frank Weißer:
> 
>> I use to encrypt my swap and /var/tmp partitions during
>> installation.
> 
> That is LUKS.
> 
>> the partition tool in debian installer offers me randomized keys
>> for that and has 'delete partition' set to 'yes', which costs lot
>> of time, not necessary on new hdd/ssd and - my opinion - on
>> randomized keys. I propose switching to 'no', when selecting
>> randomized keys.
> 
> Why? A user can rather easy select what he wants.
> 
As I said: My opinion; if you miss setting 'no' you have to wait a lot
of time...

>> Further I can select ext2 or swap for partition format.
> 
> That is really strange. swap is only for the special-purpose swap 
> partition.
> 
Yes, I choose it for the swap partition

>> I use ext2 for /var/tmp, but - in /etc/crypttab the marker 'tmp' is
>> missing for the /var/tmp partition
> 
> Which marker?

This one:
frank@pc:~$ cat /etc/crypttab
sda4_crypt /dev/sda4 /dev/urandom cipher=aes-xts-
plain64,size=256,swap,discard
sda5_crypt /dev/sda5 /dev/urandom cipher=aes-xts-
plain64,size=256,tmp,discard
                  ^^^

> crypttab is only for decrypting the partition and creating a device 
> file for the encrypted one.
> 
>> - in /etc/fstab ext2 is set instead of ext4, that cryptsetup
>> defaults to. So on reboot I end up in emergency mode.
> 
> If you format it in ext2, choose that. Or was that an automatic
> decision by the installer?
>
I only choose ext2 for formatting the encrypted partition, because 
nothing else is offered. Despite that the partition in fact is getting 
formatted ext4, so the entry ext2 in /etc/fstab leads into emergency mode.

I think the partitioning tool in installer should offer to format the 
encrypted partition in ext4, as LUKS (?) does, instead of ext2 and must 
write ext4 to /etc/fstab, as this is, how it ends up.

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which package to file a bug report ? Frank Weißer <linux@weisser-ol.de> - 2024-02-22 13:30 +0100
  Re: which package to file a bug report ? Marco Moock <mm@dorfdsl.de> - 2024-02-22 16:10 +0100
    Re: which package to file a bug report ? Frank Weißer <linux@weisser-ol.de> - 2024-02-22 20:10 +0100
      Re: which package to file a bug report ? Marco Moock <mm@dorfdsl.de> - 2024-02-23 13:30 +0100
        Re: which package to file a bug report ? Frank Weißer <linux@weisser-ol.de> - 2024-02-23 14:10 +0100
          Re: which package to file a bug report ? Marco Moock <mm@dorfdsl.de> - 2024-02-25 00:30 +0100
            Re: which package to file a bug report ? Frank Weißer <linux@weisser-ol.de> - 2024-02-27 08:20 +0100
              Re: which package to file a bug report ? "Jonathan Dowland" <jmtd@debian.org> - 2024-02-28 15:40 +0100

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