LinuxBSDos.com posted a tutorial about installing Mageia 1 on an encrypted LVM file system

Mageia is a new Linux distribution formed by former employees and contributors of Mandriva, a Linux software provider and publisher of a line of Linux distributions of the same name. The first stable release (of Mageia) has since been reviewed for this website (see Mageia 1 review). This article presents the steps necessary to install it on an encrypted LVM file system.

LVM, the Linux Logical Volume Manager, is a disk management system that makes it possible to manage disks in manner not possible with the traditional method. With LVM, for example, you can increase the size of a logical volume, add a new disk to the system, all while the system is online.

  Install Mageia 1 on an encrypted LVM file system