Installation with btrfs, hibernation and encryption and booting

[bogdancovaciu]

You did it on our calamares modules, not on the main project.

[Rulinux]

@bogdancovaciu

You did it on our calamares modules, not on the main project

What I should do then exactly? Where should I place the request? Can move or delete the old request?

[Rulinux]

@Zesko

Fast boot (Kernel is unencrypted) and the ability “boot off any snapshot via GRUB menu”, but with partial encryption, not full encryption.

1. partition ~300 MB FAT32 for /boot/efi
2. partition ~80 GB Btrfs for / , no LUKS encryption
3. partition ~400 GB Btrfs for /home with LUKS encryption.
4. swap partition 16 GB is the same as the size of your RAM for hibernation with LUKS encryption or without encryption.

Before using the auto calameres installer I formatted all partitions of my OS hard drive completely to one partition in btrfs. Maybe you have to reboot with USB-live-stick before you do the main installation.

I have tried out the configuration above and could not make it work, also with the manual configuration of the installer. It took my whole weekend to set up my computer again.
Only 2 solutions completely worked finally so far both with auto-installer part within calamares:

1. Unencrypted
   Delete Partition
   swap with hibernation and btrfs
2. Encrypted
   Delete partition
   no swap and btrfs
   encryption activated

[Zesko]

@Rulinux

Only 2 solutions completely worked so far both with auto-installer within calamares with these settings:

It seems Calamares installer has some functional limitations.

[Rulinux]

@Zesko

It seems Calamares installer has some functional limitations.

Definitely it has. Also quite some inconsistencies as you can choose settings in the “auto-installer” which do no work.