On Fri, Jul 30, 2010 at 8:33 AM, Todd Denniston <Todd.Denniston at tsb.cranrdte.navy.mil> wrote: > Best use for LVM I have seen... > Reducing the number of times you need to enter the LUKS pass phrase to once per boot, i.e., one LUKS > containing an LVM of / and Swap so that the system can boot with one entry of the pass phrase and if > you then have other partitions, such as an independent /home, /etc/crypttab can be used (with > appropriately constructed and protected cryptpassphrase files). At this point I don't even know what a LUKS pass phrase is -- is this something I'm liable to run into on a home desktop computer? -- RonB -- Using CentOS 5.5