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Question: is systemd-homed ready for everyday use yet? (feddit.de)

submitted 1 year ago by Prunebutt@feddit.de to c/linux@lemmy.ml

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Hi! I want to try out fedora workstation in the near future (once 39 is out) and was wondering if systemd-homed is ready for everyday use yet.

I'm a bit paranoid and really need my private data encrypted. However, I don't think that full disk encryption is practical for my daily use. Therefore I was really looking forward to the encryption possibilities of systemd-homed.

However, after reading up on it, I was a bit discouraged. AFAIK, there's no option to setup systemd-homed at installation (of fedora). I was an Arch then Manjaro, then Endeavour user for years but don't have the time/patience anymore to configure major parrts of my system anymore. Also, the documentation doesn't seem too noob-friendly to me, which also plays into the time/patience argument.

Is it ready? Can anyone seriously recommend it for a lazy ex-Arch user who doesn't want to break another linux installation?

Thank you in advance. :)

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[–] wildbus8979@sh.itjust.works 28 points 1 year ago (69 children)

To go back to basics, why is FDE not suitable for your needs?

[+] nora -2 points 1 year ago (2 children)

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[–] taaz@biglemmowski.win 9 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

I am pretty sure, you can as easily have encryption only on a single logical partition of that disk, considering you first create a luks partition, unlock it and then format the mapped device with the target filesystem (and install the OS on there).

[–] rufus@discuss.tchncs.de 5 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Or have an entire LVM volume group on that one encrypted partition / mapped device. And have as many logical volumes inside as you want.

[–] d3Xt3r@lemmy.nz 1 points 1 year ago

You could potentially run Windows in a VM, then you can get rid of the Windows partition and have it all sit within LUKS.

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