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From: Michael Mol <mikemol@gmail.com>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Full disk encryption
Date: Fri, 2 Dec 2011 14:10:55 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <CA+czFiA9gNHjEDR-gN=5jyQo6Ryggm89hvPoOxnpmW9VRDXD3g@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20111202185855.58148ea5@karnak.local>

On Fri, Dec 2, 2011 at 1:58 PM, David W Noon <dwnoon@ntlworld.com> wrote:
> On Fri, 2 Dec 2011 08:55:35 +0700, Pandu Poluan wrote about Re:
> [gentoo-user] Re: Full disk encryption:
>
>> On Dec 1, 2011 3:32 AM, "David W Noon" <dwnoon@ntlworld.com> wrote:
>> > I have a working initramfs layout, but currently it is too large
>> > (>32MiB) for my /boot partition.  The problem package is e2fsprogs,
>> > as it requires dynamic linkage and, consequently, a full-sized
>> > glibc. This sucks, so I need to patch the Makefile(s) to build a
>> > more sensible set of executables for an initramfs.
> [snip]
>> You know, Debian has an e2fsck-static package. Why don't Gentoo,  I
>> wonder...
>>
>> That said, you *can* have an "almost-static" e2fsck if you compile it
>> yourself.
>
> Clearly you have not tried this yourself. [I have.]
>
> The reason modern e2fsprogs no longer have the static option is that
> the Makefile logic has long been neglected for the static modules and
> they no longer build correctly to produce e2fsck.static.  I am
> currently (on and off) building a patched Makefile to correct this, but
> the build is so convoluted that it is something of a chore.

I like Gentoo because I'm a perpetual edge case. This and mdev makes
two edge-case things you're tackling in your spare time that I know
of...Drop me a line if you're ever in the vicinity of Grand Rapids,
MI. I'll buy you a beer.

-- 
:wq



  reply	other threads:[~2011-12-02 19:12 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 41+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-11-30 15:19 [gentoo-user] Full disk encryption czernitko
2011-11-30 15:27 ` Neil Bothwick
2011-11-30 15:40   ` czernitko
2011-11-30 15:48     ` Felix Kuperjans
2011-11-30 16:01       ` czernitko
2011-11-30 18:04     ` [gentoo-user] " Jack Byer
2011-11-30 18:31       ` Dale
2011-11-30 18:44         ` Neil Bothwick
2011-11-30 19:50           ` Dale
2011-11-30 20:19             ` czernitko
2011-11-30 21:45               ` Neil Bothwick
2011-11-30 19:38         ` [gentoo-user] " Jack Byer
2011-12-01  4:21           ` Dale
2011-12-01  5:07             ` [gentoo-user] " Jack Byer
2011-12-01  5:38               ` Dale
2011-11-30 20:28         ` [gentoo-user] " David W Noon
2011-11-30 21:47           ` Neil Bothwick
2011-11-30 22:07             ` David W Noon
2011-11-30 23:26               ` Neil Bothwick
2011-12-01  0:27                 ` David W Noon
2011-12-01  0:36                   ` Dale
2011-12-01  0:39                   ` Michael Mol
2011-12-01  1:23                     ` David W Noon
2011-12-01 16:41                       ` Michael Mol
2011-12-01 23:00                         ` David W Noon
2011-12-01  8:47                   ` Neil Bothwick
2011-12-01 13:43                     ` David W Noon
2011-12-01 14:03                       ` Neil Bothwick
2011-12-01 14:13                         ` Dale
2011-12-01 15:02                           ` Neil Bothwick
2011-12-02 22:00                         ` David W Noon
2011-12-02 23:24                           ` Neil Bothwick
2011-12-03  0:44                             ` David W Noon
2011-12-03  8:41                               ` Neil Bothwick
2011-12-01  2:46           ` [gentoo-user] " Jack Byer
2011-12-02  1:55           ` [gentoo-user] " Pandu Poluan
2011-12-02 18:58             ` David W Noon
2011-12-02 19:10               ` Michael Mol [this message]
2011-12-02 21:37                 ` [gentoo-user] Beers in Michigan (was: " David W Noon
2011-11-30 18:32       ` [gentoo-user] " czernitko
2011-11-30 18:50         ` Aljosha Papsch

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