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Subject: Re: [dm-crypt] KISS (was disappearing luks header and other
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On 16.09.2014, Boylan, Ross wrote: 

> 1. Partition
> 2. RAID
> 3. LVM 
> 4. LUKS
 
> That is decidedly too many. KISS is not even in the building
> anymore with that.

It is. Every single process does one thing. The problem is that most
of the distributions out there automatically install LVM. In my case,
I always chose four primary partitions manually, because they fit my
needs and are simple to manage, while not adding more complexity than
neccessary (/, /boot, /home, swap).