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Full disk encryption & boot partition from a CD

I would like to try enabling Full Disk Encryption under Ubuntu 13.04. I would also like to put my boot partition on a burnt CD-R, rather than unencrypted on the HDD. A CD-R has a number of advantages ...
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Gnome Disk Utility: Cannot change passphrase

Specifications: Gnome Disk Utility v.3.0.2 running on 12.04 LTS on a generic AMD64 box used to partition a HDD interfaced via SATA and create the file-system. Options defined were the following: No ...
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Is it possible to install Win8 next to an encrypted Ubuntu?

I run Ubuntu on an SDD (encrypted with systemtools since installation). So I want to install Windows 8 on a second partion on the same drive, but it is possible to do so, without chrashing anything, ...
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How to check an encrypted disk for errors

During the last installation of Ubuntu I set up full disk encryption using the option on the installer. My disk seems to now have become corrupt, and I'd like to check it for errors. GNOME Disks on ...
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Full disk encryption with preseed but without LVM?

My use case is the following: I would like to create a preseed file for the Ubuntu 12.04.2 LTS installer that automatically partitions the target hard disk into three primary partitions: boot ...
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What happens when I expanding LVM+eCryptfs Volume (regarding encryption)

My system had a Windows partition using the beginning of a 500 GB disk, followed by a LVM setup with a Volume Group and several Logical Volumes (encrypted home, root, swap). I deleted the Windows ...
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Partitioning options

So far I've always been using the simplest partitioning option possibile for my Ubuntu installations: / (ext4) 50 GB swap 2GB (the size of the RAM installed) ntfs (Data) -> the remaining GBs, with ...
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How to migrate an encrypted LVM install to a new disk

I have a somewhat customised laptop install I want to move to a SSD directly, without having to reinstall Ubuntu, reinstall all the apps and make all the other changes again. The SSD is smaller, so I ...
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Create fully encrypted disk with 2 logical partitions?

Ideally I'd like to use full-disk encryption but have two partitions. Anyone know if this is possible? (Even better, I'd like to resize the one I have and add a partition, but this looks very ...
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Encrypted LVM on multiple drives [duplicate]

Possible Duplicate: Full Disk Encryption with LUKS: auto mount second volume I want to set up encrypted LVM when I install Ubuntu. I have an SSD and an HDD and I would like to put /boot, ...
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New lvm install to pick up existing home drive and reinstate swap partition

I've read so many variables on what I'm trying to do, I thought it better to ask outright. I've been through a few installs and upgrades of Ubuntu but never had my system (root) drive encrypted. Just ...
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How to open encrypted partition, knowing the passphrase?

I just installed Ubuntu 12.04 with the encrypting option. Soon after I found that I have lost my Windows Vista and all my previous partitions as the in the new Ubuntu only one hard drive with ...
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How do I install Ubuntu with encrypted root, home, and swap partitions?

I would like to install Ubuntu 12.10 with two features: partitioning of my disks (/ and /home should be separated, plus eventually a swap partition) encryption of those partitions How should I do ...
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Resizing boot partition with full disk encryption

I have seen the answers to the general question regarding resizing the boot partition. In my case, I have installed Ubuntu 12.04 Alternate with full disk encryption. Since the drive can not be ...
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swapon --all --verbose : 'read swap header failed: Invalid argument'

Recently ran through EnableHibernateWithEncryptedSwap and ran the following command: swapon --all --verbose and received: 'read swap header failed: Invalid argument' How do I fix this? Here's some ...
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Disk '______' doesn't contain a valid partition table

Having recently run through EnableHibernateWithEncryptedSwap, I now get 3 separate 'Disk doesn't contain a valid partition table' when I run sudo fdisk -l: Disk /dev/mapper/ubuntu--t10194-root ...
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After hard drive partitioning the encrypted swap is/was? not working

system is Ubuntu 12.04 x64 Linux UserPC 3.2.0-29-generic #46-Ubuntu SMP Fri Jul 27 17:03:23 UTC 2012 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux I had to do modifications to the partitioning of Windows, in short I ...
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“Partition Misaligned by 1024 bytes” on encrypted lvm

Disk Utility is giving me the error "The partition is misaligned by 1024 bytes. This may result in very poor performance. Repartitioning is suggested" on a partition which holds an encrypted LVM. I ...
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Which partition is the Ubuntu?

I am encrypting my entire Ubuntu partition with TrueCrypt, but I am not sure which one is the Ubuntu partition? I have dual boot Ubuntu with the other being Windows Vista which has basically no ...
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Encrypted 3TB USB drive GPT /GUID shows wrong size in ubuntu 12.04/64bit

My external USB drive with GUID Partition Table shows wrong size and i am thinking thats stopping TrueCrypt from mounting it. The disk is Formated in Win7 and works there fine. The 2. partition is ...
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How large should I make root, home, usr, var, and tmp partitions?

i install ubuntu server 10.04, have 64 Gb VHD. And want to separate partitions in this mode: /dev/xvda0 p on swap (2 Gb) /dev/xvda1a0 e on /boot (128 Mb) /dev/xvda1a1 e on / type ffs (local) ...
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Partition recovery: How can I insert existing partitions into an extended partition?

In trying to solve a problem with Windows, a tool I was using deleted some of my partitions. I used TestDisk to recover my partitions. While it managed to recover all my data partitions, it couldn't ...
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Install Ubuntu on full encrypted HD?

I have here a windows on a full encrypted hd. I cannot disable this encrypted hd. Everything should be unchanged, I just want to Install Ubuntu on an extra partition. But here I think the problem is: ...
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Separate home directory and system files

this is a quite tricky one, I suppose. My current system is installed on a RAID 1 I created during the Ubuntu installation (i.e. /dev/md0). The swap partition is also on the RAID. My home directory ...
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How to find out more about encrypted partitions?

I just installed Ubuntu 10.04 with the alternate CD. I'm using a encrypte LVM. So all my partitions should be encrypted. But how do I find out, if they are encrypted and how (AES?, bit?,...) Thanks ...
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18 billion GB extended partition showing in GParted - how was this done?

And what does it mean - exactly? And - although I strongly suspect it's not the drive's fault and also that there isn't one - anyone know how to return drives to their original geometric state ...
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How to move $HOME to an encrypted partition?

I have an unencrypted $HOME (I used the very basic installation with no further partitioning and no encryption at all). Now I want to move my $HOME to an encrypted partition on an external drive (or ...
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Repartition encrypted partition

When I installed Natty (11.04) I chose to encrypt /home and I chose to mount it on a separate partition. I would like to repartition /home without losing data and by having the same sort of encryption ...
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Can I use gparted to resize a Truecrypt-encrypted partition?

I have an external drive with two partitions - one encrypted, the other not so. I'd like to move all the data to the encrypted partition, and then resize it to take up the whole drive. If I use ...
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Problems trying to move my /home partition

I was running low in disk space on my Linux box, Ubuntu 10.10 Desktop, (specifically on my /home partition) so I added another disk to it and I am trying to move the home partition into it. I am ...
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How can i move an encrypted home directory to another partition?

How can i move a enrypted home directory to another partition? Are there differences between moving an unencrypted home directory to another partition and an encrypted home directory? Perhaps does ...
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Errors when performing fsck on encrypted partition in recovery mode

I'm booting in recovery mode Unmount crypto partition. umount /dev/mapper/sda6_crypt and i make fsck -c /dev/mapper/sda6_crypt fsck output: fsck.LVM"_member: not found fsck: Error 2 while ...
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Is the swap partition encrypted?

Selecting the encryption option at install time to encrypt the home partition. Does this enable encryption of the swap partition or is the swap partition unencrypted. If the swap partition is ...
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Migrating, partitioning, and encrypting plan of attack

Right now, I'm running Karmic with an unencrypted home folder sharing a partition with my system files. I'd like to change all that, but I have no idea where to start. Should I move my home folder to ...
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How do I access an encrypted home folder from a dual-boot machine?

(This might not be an Ubuntu-specific question?) When I installed 9.10, I opted to encrypt my home folder using ecryptfs, but then I discovered this locked me out of my ext3 partition when I tried to ...