My experience with hibernate and encryption

  • boot unencrypted and root/home in encrypted btrfs. Good, but it is hard to reinstall without reformatting and losing the /home subvolume.
  • encrypted btrfs with boot+home+root. It only works with GRUB, not refind and probably not systemd boot. Same problem when reinstalling.
  • boot+root together unencrypted btrfs + home encrypted. It works ok, but it doesn’t ask for password when resuming, only when booting from scratch.

It would be good if the installer could warn the user of the consequences of his decision.

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