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Author: Hendrik Boom
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To: dng
Subject: Re: [DNG] dual boot + encryption
On Wed, Nov 30, 2022 at 10:01:56AM +1000, onefang wrote:
> On 2022-11-29 15:55:31, Gregory Nowak via Dng wrote:
> > On Tue, Nov 29, 2022 at 02:35:02PM +0100, Johan Helsingius wrote:
> > > Is it possible to do a dual-boot (windows + devuan) install where
> > > the devuan part is encrypted?
> >
> > I don't see why not. Setup encryption during the devuan install, and
> > make sure that grub can boot both devuan and win10. If you can devote
> > a separate drive to each operating system, that would keep things even more
> > separated, but that's not necessary.
>
> Always remember this important safety tip, install Windows first, then it
> wont be greedy and wipe out your Linux install to grab all the space on
> all drives. Found that out the hard way. For a while I was ultra
> paranoid and had each OS in separate disks I could pull out of the disk
> trays easily.


Is it likely to do similar damage during its regular forced updates?

-- hendrik