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Subject: Re: root encryption
Date: Thu, 09 Feb 2017 16:40:25 +0100
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Catonano <catonano@gmail.com> skribis:

> Given this excerpt from the sample desktop installation conf
>
>   (mapped-devices
>    (list (mapped-device
>           (source (uuid "12345678-1234-1234-1234-123456789abc"))
>           (target "the-root-device")
>           (type luks-device-mapping))))
>
> I wonder: what' s the type for a non Luks encrypted root partition ?

If the root partition is not encrypted (and not RAID or anything like
that), you don=E2=80=99t need to declare a =E2=80=9Cmapped device=E2=80=9D =
for it.  All you need
is to declare a file system in the =E2=80=98file-systems=E2=80=99 field.

HTH!

Ludo=E2=80=99.