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Manually setting partitions with encryption?

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http://askubuntu.com – I just bought a new laptop and would like to installed Ubuntu 12.10, but I don't want to remove the recovery partitions that the manufacturer has setup (maybe that would void my warranty?). Looking at the manual partition setup, I understand that my root partition needs to be unencrypted, while my /home and swap need to be encrypted. Two questions: --How big does my root partition need to be? --How do I encrypt the swap? There only appears to be one 'swap' option in the drop-down box. (HowTos)

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Submitted by Danial on 01/13/2013 – Made popular on 01/13/2013

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I've got SIFT (based on Ubuntu 9.10) installed on a work laptop. We're trying to encrypt the entire installation (root partition and swap), which is apparently doable using LUKS, but I'm having some trouble getting it all to work.

Here's where I'm at so far:

I have an unencrypted /boot partition, one unencrypted root partition, and one encrypted partition.

After a bit of googling I still haven't managed to find a clear answer to this. If you use the guided encrypted LVM install option from the Ubuntu 11.10 Alternate cd (I think it's option 3), does it encrypt the swap partition automatically, as well as home? Leaving only the boot loader unencrypted?

Linux partitions are basically of three types: swap, root, and home. The swap partition is used for Linux swap space, root partition for Linux and the installed applications, and home partitions for holding /home directory i.e. data. When it comes to data accessibility, the latter two partitions are comparatively more vital for uninterrupted data access.

Hello. I've already read Ubuntu's SwapFAQ here but it doesn't say anything about deleting swap partitions, so just to be clear, and to avoid any possible headaches, I have to ask: Is it safe to delete all but one of these swap partitions and extend my main ext4 partition?

Screenshot illustrating the issue:

The NTFS partition is just a shared media partition NOT a windows system partition.

I have Linux Mint 14 installed as my only OS. I have one extended partition containing /swap, / and /home, and I have some unallocated space on my drive.

I'm guessing that Mint decided to put this all on an extended partition instead of three primary partitions.

So I want to build Linux From Scratch using some of my unallocated space.

I originally posted this here, but have reposted it here as suggested by omns:Does anyone have any experience reinstalling with encrypted /home and swap? I have / on one partition, encrypted /home on another, and encrypted swap on a third, running updated Waldorf 20120430.

I want to install another Linux distribution (Fedora) besides Ubuntu 12.04 on my laptop. As I like to hibernate my system and as I want to use this feature on both installed Linux distributions, how many swap partitions do I need? And if I need multiple swap partitions, how do I configure them?

Edit/Clarification: I want to be able to hibernate both operating systems simultaneously.

Ubuntu 12.04 & Grub on Macbook 16 weeks 2 days ago

Several months ago I installed Ubuntu in an external 500MB USB disk (and on an old MacBook4,1). with a GPT Partition table and partitioned as following:

swap swap an unique ext4 partition for Ubuntu one NTFS partition for datas

Everything worked fine with Grub on sda (a 500MB disk with standard osx installation and partitions).

Some days ago I installed another distro in another USB disk, al

To add a swap partition in hard disk /dev/hdb2, use the following steps: