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This guide will set up an Arch Linux system with a partition containing logical volumes for swap, root, and home using LVM. Which are then ecrypted using LUKS. This is a basic guide for myself to reference. For a more in-depth guide go to the Luks on LVM section in the arch wiki encrytion guide. Below is an example of the disk layout: 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 +----------------+-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------+ | Boot partition | dm-crypt plain encrypted volume | LUKS encrypted volume | LUKS encrypted volume | | | | | | | /boot | [SWAP] | / | /home | | | | | | | | /dev/mapper/swap | /dev/mapper/root | /dev/mapper/home | | |_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _|_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _|_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _| | | Logical volume 1 | Logical volume 2 | Logical volume 3 | | | /dev/MyVolGroup/cryptswap | /dev/MyVolGroup/cryptroot | /dev/MyVolGroup/crypthome | | |_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _|_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _|_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _| | | | | /dev/sda1 | /dev/sda2 | +----------------+-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------+ Mount Point Partition Logical Volume Type File System Size /mnt/boot /dev/partition1 none(not encrypted) EFI system partition fat32 1G [swap] /dev/partition2 /dev/MyVolGroup/cryptswap Linux swap swap 16G /mnt /dev/partition2 /dev/MyVolGroup/cryptroot Linux root btrfs 200G /mnt/home /dev/partition2 /dev/MyVolGroup/crypthome Linux home btrfs Remainder …To Be Continued ...

Some random linux stuff I would like to remember. Pacman 1 2 3 pacman-key --init pacman-key --populate pacman-key --refresh-keys Mounting drives Samba shares Install ‘cifs-utils’ for smb support Edit ‘/etc/credentials/samba/share’ 1 2 username=user password=pass Change permissions 1 2 3 chown root:root /etc/credentials chmod 700 /etc/credentials/samba chmod 600 /etc/credentials/samba/share Edit ‘/etc/fstab’ for mounting on boot 1 //<server>//<share> <mountpoint> cifs _netdev,nofail,credentials=/etc/credentials/samba/share,uid=user,gid=goup 0 0 Veracrypt drives Install ’ntfs-3g’ for ntfs partitions Edit ‘/etc/credentials/veracrypt/storage’ with your password Change permissions ...

This guide will set up an Arch Linux system with an encrypted partition using LUKS containing logical volumes for swap, root, and home using LVM. This is a basic guide for myself to reference. For a more in-depth guide go to the LVM on Luks section in the arch wiki encrytion guide. Below is an example of the disk layout: 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 +----------------++-----------------------------------------------------------------------+ | Boot partition || Logical volume 1 | Logical volume 2 | Logical volume 3 | | || | | | | /boot || [SWAP] | / | /home | | || | | | | || /dev/MyVolGroup/swap | /dev/MyVolGroup/root | /dev/MyVolGroup/home | | (may be on ||_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _|_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _|_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _| | other device) || | | || LUKS2 encrypted partition | | /dev/sda1 || /dev/sda2 | +----------------++-----------------------------------------------------------------------+ Mount Point Partition Logical Volume Type File System Size /mnt/boot /dev/partition1 none(not encrypted) EFI system partition fat32 1G [swap] /dev/partition2 /dev/MyVolGroup/swap Linux swap swap 16G /mnt /dev/partition2 /dev/MyVolGroup/root Linux root btrfs 200G /mnt/home /dev/partition2 /dev/MyVolGroup/home Linux home btrfs Remainder 1. Creating the GPT partition table List the available drives and create the partition table: ...

This guide will install a base arch system and create a user with sudo privileges. This is a basic guide for myself to reference. For a more in-depth guide go to the arch wiki install guide. 1. Format and Partition the disk Below is an example of the disk layout: Mount Point Partition Type File System Size /mnt/boot /dev/efi_system_partition EFI system partition fat32 1G [swap] /dev/swap_partition Linux swap swap 16G /mnt /dev/root_partition Linux root btrfs 200G /mnt/home /dev/home_partition Linux home btrfs Remainder 1.1. Create GPT partition table List the available drives and create the partition table: ...