Hello everyone,
yesterday I did a test-run, installed the newest stable Manjaro Gnome on my x220 Thinkpad without encryption. I did that to make sure that my new SDD partitioning works out. (As I merged some partitions and got rid of my dual-boot windows.)
So my new setup is the following:
- /boot (1gb, ext4)
- / (100gb, ext4)
- swap (20gb, linuxswap)
- /home (~360gb, ext4, all remaining space)
What I want to achieve: Fresh Install & encrypt all the things, not just root.
But I also want to keep using this setup as I want to keep root and /home seperated in case I need to upgrade or re-install in the future. Don’t want to lose my data on /home then.
Now when I try to install the same Manjaro again, I run into the following problem:
Which option shall I choose in the partitioning part of the installation?
I want the installer to just sort everything in its right partition and then encrypt the whole disc.
When I choose replacing a partition and choose what is now /, it seems as if the installer would install all the things (including home and boot) in there and encrypt that partition. But it would leave the other 3 partitions as is and ignore them. So not what I want.
When I choose custom partitions and go through the 4 existing partitions, I can encrypt them (if I reassign them) by setting a checkmark in the respective boxes. But then I have to encrypt them one by one? Wouldn’t that mean that I have to decrypt 4 things on each startup? Also this didn’t seem to work as the installer just gave up and quit without a warning after I started the installation process.
Choosing custom partitions and setting a checkmark for “please encrypt” before I go to the custom screen – and then don’t encrypt each partition individually – nothing gets encrypted in the end.
I feel like I am missing something here.
Unfortunately I couldn’t do a proper screenshot so I hope I explained well enough what my trouble is.
Maybe someone went through this ordeal already and can assist me?
I might just be missing some understanding of how partitioning or harddrive-encrption works .
I did search a lot for the solution but all answers I could find where people either missing the encryption-checkbox for being tiny or having some more complex needs (dual boot, not wanting to encrypt /boot or similar). My desired setup seems so vanilla compared to that that I am certain there must be an easy solution.
PS: I wouldn’t mind re-partitioning again or something if it is needed. There is no data on my old x220 that I still need. I’d just like to keep this / a similar 4-part-partition layout with swap and / separated from /home.
Thanks in advance for reading through my novel