Encrypted swap/tmp in lvm?

Thomas Lange lange at cs.uni-koeln.de
Thu Sep 5 13:25:58 CEST 2024


When looking an the setup-storage man page you config seems to be
reasonable. But I don't know if swap on lvm partitions with crypt is
supported.

Does it work if you use a plain partition for swap without lvm.

>>>>> On Thu, 22 Aug 2024 15:34:56 +0100, Stephen Quinney via linux-fai <linux-fai at uni-koeln.de> said:

    > I'm wondering if it's possible to create an lvm volume to use as
    > encrypted tmp or swap? I'm getting this error:

    > Cannot satisfy pre-depends for cryptsetup --key-file=/dev/urandom create crypt_dev_mapper_vg0-swap /dev/mapper/vg0-swap: exist_/dev/mapper/vg0-swap -- system left untouched.

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regards Thomas


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