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Why is it not recommended to put boot partition on LVM?
I read somewhere that it is not recommended to put boot partition on lvm based partition. But, I’m doing it anyway. Then the only problem I’ve faced on this is sometimes when I install a new Linux distro and put it’s boot partition on lvm, grub can’t detect it. The grub-mkconfig command usually make a mistake on generating grub.cfg file.
How to setup software RAID1 on a running LVM system?
How To Set Up Software RAID1 On A Running LVM System (Incl. GRUB Configuration) (Debian Etch) 1 1 Preliminary Note. 2 2 Installing mdadm. The most important tool for setting up RAID is mdadm. 3 3 Preparing /dev/sdb. To create a RAID1 array on our already running system, we must prepare the /dev/sdb hard drive for… More
Which is the best tool for setting up raid?
The most important tool for setting up RAID is mdadm. Let’s install it like this: To create a RAID1 array on our already running system, we must prepare the /dev/sdb hard drive for RAID1, then copy the contents of our /dev/sda hard drive to it, and finally add /dev/sda to the RAID1 array.
Can you move files from LVM to / boot in Fedora?
Latest Fedora installations won’t let you do that automatically. You’ll have to put your ”/boot” in a regular partition during install, then boot normally and then move the content manually to the LVM “/” filesystem.
How to encrypt the entire disk in Debian?
Steps below install a minimal Debian that makes use of the entire disk as a single Linux Unified Key Setup (LUKS) encrypted partition that is used by the Logical Volume Manager (LVM) to create “virtual partitions” ( Logical Volumes or LVs) of root (containing boot ), swap, and home. Installing LVM on top of the encrypted partition allows:
How to unlock Luks from the boot loader?
Until LUKS version 2 support is added to GRUB2, the device (s) holding /boot needs to be in LUKS format version 1 to be unlocked from the boot loader. This document describes a generic way to unlock LUKS devices from GRUB for Debian Buster.
How to unlock Luks from Grub for Debian Buster?
This document describes a generic way to unlock LUKS devices from GRUB for Debian Buster. There are two alternatives here: Either format an existing /boot partition to LUKS1; or Move /boot to the root file system. The root device (s) needs to use LUKS version 1, but existing LUKS2 devices can be converted (in-place) to LUKS1.