[ale] LVM over LUKs after F 13 install

Brian Pitts brian at polibyte.com
Sun Jun 13 19:56:03 EDT 2010


On 06/13/2010 03:56 PM, Scott Castaline wrote:
> I had created a separate LUKS volume on each hdd, then I added them to
> LVM2 by crating a separate VG for each hdd, with no additional
> encryption ( I believe that's called layered encryption ). I then in one
> VG ( which is the 2nd VG for the system ) created 3 or 4 LVs using one
> for the 2nd half of my swap totalling 5GB and the othe VG only has 1 LV.
> I had done all this with Fedora 12. When I finally got Fedora 13 to
> install I must have missed the part that would have allowed to
> non-destructively include other hdds in the new system. Now when I boot
> the drive that has F 13 the 2 1TB hdds don't exist. fdisk -l only shows
> the 1st drive (/dev/sda) partitions and the boot process of course only
> unlocks 1 key0 slot.

With Fedora 12, could you unlock all three devices during boot?

Are you saying the kernel doesn't detect your external drives? Do they 
show up in palimpsest (aka applications->system tools->disk utility)?

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All the best,
Brian Pitts


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