[HowTo] Install Manjaro fully encrypted using Manjaro Architect

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Note:

If you do not need multiple encrypted partitions, a better approach is to replace the swap partition with a swapfile. That way, only a single encrypted partition is necessary, and we can ditch LVM, freeing us from its performance penalty and further simplifying everything. It is then best to select /boot over /boot/efi as EFI mount point for better performance.

So, to sum it up:

  • Automatic partitioning.
  • Create LUKS container in the bigger volume.
  • Mount the LUKS container to /. Choose ext4 or xfs if you want to use a swapfile.
  • For swap, choose swap file.
  • For extra mounts, don’t choose anything.
  • For EFI mount point, choose /boot and the smaller automatically created partition.
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