On 12/08/2014 08:35 PM, David McGuffey wrote: > I'll still get ready for another failure. Will read up on the best > methods to have an encrypted filesystem on top of raid-1. I'm pretty sure that if you tell the Fedora installer to build an encrypted RAID1 system, you'll get exactly what I described previously. In detail: sda1 - 512MB sda2 - remainder of disk sdb1 - 512MB sdb2 - remainder of disk md0 - RAID1 including sda1 and sdb1 md1 - RAID1 including sda2 and sdb2 /boot - filesystem on md0 luks-$(uuid) - encrypted block device on md1 pv.01 - LVM2 physical volume on luks-$(uuid) fedora_$(hostname) - LVM2 volume group including "pv.01" swap - swap on logical volume root - filesystem on logical volume home - filesystem on logical volume If you replace a disk, you'll need to partition it correctly and "mdadm --add" it to the two RAID volumes. If you manually set up some other layering, replacing a disk will probably be more involved.