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Pre-release Ubuntu 12.10 has partial support for manual LVM and disk encryption

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http://www.linuxbsdos.com – About three weeks ago, I published automated LVM and disk encryption in a pre-release version of what will become Ubuntu 12.10, aka Quantal Quetzal. Shortly after, the state of manual LVM and full disk encryption configuration in Ubuntu’s Ubiquity was published. The gist of that last article was that automated LVM and disk encryption were fully supported in the installer, but that manual configuration of both features was not. Today, I took another look at a daily build of Ubuntu 12.10 to see how far the coders have come in implementing manual LVM and disk encryption. Here is what I found: (General)

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Ubiquity, Ubuntu Desktop‘s graphical installation program, is very easy to use, very newbie friendly, but it lacks support for full disk encryption, LVM, the Linux Logical Volume Manager, and RAID. On a desktop system, I do not care very much about RAID, but full disk encryption and LVM are must-haves. Well, it looks like from [...]

The first beta release of what will become Ubuntu 12.10 has been released. Code-named Quantal Quetzal, Ubuntu 12.10 will ship with two highly desirable features in Ubiquity, its graphical installation program.

hello,

i got a macbook pro 9,1 (mid 2012) and plan on finally switching from osx as main system and windows for games, to ubuntu as main one and osx just for firmware updates.

how would i do that, while still being able to use the full disk encryption from the ubuntu installer (so easy).

I installed Ubuntu using the alternate installation disk and opted for the option of full disk encryption.

However the OS shows unstable behavior. After a few minutes of using it, it reacts very slow. The computer sometimes (temporarily) freezes or even crashes when an application (like Firefox) is opened.

I do use a pretty old (second hand) hard disk.

I know some fragments of this question have been asked in previous posts and I have reviewed them - however I have a more thorough question...

I did not choose to do whole disk encryption when I used the alternative installer to install my 12.04 distro.

Disk encryption is one of several security features built into the Linux kernel that you may use to enhance the physical security rating and posture of a Linux installation. Disk encryption used to be widely recommended for notebook computers, and the reason is such mobile computers are more likely to be stolen than a desktop [...]