Groups > linux.debian.user > #201531

Re: Won't boot if /, home, swap are encrypted

From	David Wright <deblis@lionunicorn.co.uk>
Newsgroups	linux.debian.user
Subject	Re: Won't boot if /, home, swap are encrypted
Date	2018-10-22 18:00 +0200
Message-ID	<wLKMx-2x6-3@gated-at.bofh.it> (permalink)
References	(1 earlier) <wLlXP-4B3-5@gated-at.bofh.it> <wLpRL-6S7-5@gated-at.bofh.it> <wLvXc-2hm-3@gated-at.bofh.it> <wLzxL-4fr-5@gated-at.bofh.it> <wLHOF-OM-5@gated-at.bofh.it>
Organization	linux.* mail to news gateway

Show all headers | View raw

On Mon 22 Oct 2018 at 14:42:09 (+0200), Pascal Hambourg wrote:
> Le 22/10/2018 à 05:50, David Wright a écrit :
> > 
> > Noted above. This is to give you partition alignment of 1MiB for
> > efficiency. For GPT disks like this, I also add a 3MiB partition
> > (giving me 4MiB alignment) set to "BIOS boot" which, like it says,
> > allows it to be booted in legacy mode if ever required.
> 
> Why do you need 4 MiB alignment ?

As you probably know, I don't. Is there any harm in always rounding
up? I'm just generous to Grub and its ilk. When you read posts about
partitioning, you realise there are some really stingy people out
there. They would probably be calculating a size that squeezes it into
the space before 1MiB.

Cheers,
David.

Thread

Won't boot if /, home, swap are encrypted D&P Dimov <lddimov@yahoo.com> - 2018-10-21 15:30 +0200
  Re: Won't boot if /, home, swap are encrypted Matthew Crews <mailinglists@mattcrews.com> - 2018-10-21 15:40 +0200
  Re: Won't boot if /, home, swap are encrypted Roberto C. Sánchez <roberto@debian.org> - 2018-10-21 19:40 +0200
    Re: Won't boot if /, home, swap are encrypted D&P Dimov <lddimov@yahoo.com> - 2018-10-21 19:50 +0200
    Re: Won't boot if /, home, swap are encrypted Matthew Crews <mailinglists@mattcrews.com> - 2018-10-22 02:10 +0200
      Re: Won't boot if /, home, swap are encrypted D&P Dimov <lddimov@yahoo.com> - 2018-10-22 04:20 +0200
        Re: Won't boot if /, home, swap are encrypted David Wright <deblis@lionunicorn.co.uk> - 2018-10-22 07:10 +0200
      Re: Won't boot if /, home, swap are encrypted David Wright <deblis@lionunicorn.co.uk> - 2018-10-22 06:00 +0200
        Re: Won't boot if /, home, swap are encrypted Pascal Hambourg <pascal@plouf.fr.eu.org> - 2018-10-22 14:50 +0200
          Re: Won't boot if /, home, swap are encrypted David Wright <deblis@lionunicorn.co.uk> - 2018-10-22 18:00 +0200
            Re: Won't boot if /, home, swap are encrypted Pascal Hambourg <pascal@plouf.fr.eu.org> - 2018-10-22 19:50 +0200
              Re: Won't boot if /, home, swap are encrypted Joe <joe@jretrading.com> - 2018-10-22 19:50 +0200
                Re: Won't boot if /, home, swap are encrypted Pascal Hambourg <pascal@plouf.fr.eu.org> - 2018-10-22 20:10 +0200
              Re: Won't boot if /, home, swap are encrypted David Wright <deblis@lionunicorn.co.uk> - 2018-10-23 04:30 +0200

csiph-web