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Hi Guys,

Would it be possible to have LVM included in the installed packages by default with the next release? Device mapper is already installed so it would only be one item to add. Please

Thanks,
-Eric

OK

cryptsetup-luks with it's static binary would enable encryption support. Together with LVM it's very easy to get a completely encrypted system with only one passphrase:
http://wiki.zenwalk.org/index.php?title ... KS_and_LVM

EricC wrote:Would it be possible to have LVM included in the installed packages by default with the next release? Device mapper is already installed so it would only be one item to add. Please

Just to let you know that if you need it urgently you can do it yourself! Just grab the iso, open it with isomaster, put the lvm package in the core directory and save to a new iso.

Shador wrote:cryptsetup-luks with it's static binary would enable encryption support. Together with LVM it's very easy to get a completely encrypted system with only one passphrase:
http://wiki.zenwalk.org/index.php?title ... KS_and_LVM

But we don't have such a package in our repos. :

gapan wrote: Just to let you know that if you need it urgently you can do it yourself! Just grab the iso, open it with isomaster, put the lvm package in the core directory and save to a new iso.

That is easy. Almost too easy I always thought something like that would invalidate the checksum of the ISO.

EricC wrote:I always thought something like that would invalidate the checksum of the ISO.

It will, but why should you care? You can get a new checksum with md5sum.

gapan wrote:

EricC wrote:I always thought something like that would invalidate the checksum of the ISO.

It will, but why should you care? You can get a new checksum with md5sum.

Doh, ich bin ein dumkopf!

gapan wrote:

Shador wrote:cryptsetup-luks with it's static binary would enable encryption support. Together with LVM it's very easy to get a completely encrypted system with only one passphrase:
http://wiki.zenwalk.org/index.php?title ... KS_and_LVM

But we don't have such a package in our repos. :

But slackware has.
http://packages.slackware.it/search.php ... cryptsetup

I somehow thought that crypsetup-luks was a different package than that.

gapan wrote:I somehow thought that crypsetup-luks was a different package than that.

Actually on Zenwalk cryptsetup-luks only installs cryptsetup as dep. So actually both provide the new luks version of cryptsetup.
There are also those 2 very complete and informative slackware readmes:
ftp://ftp.slackware.at/slackware-12.2/README_CRYPT.TXT
ftp://ftp.slackware.at/slackware-12.2/README_LVM.TXT