Install Arch on an encrypted btrfs partition

August 30, 2016 13 minute read

I’m preparing to move my workstation to arch linux Before I’ll install it on my physical workstation I did the installation on a virtual machine. I’ll use btrfs as the filesystem during the installation. btrfs is a nice filesystem but it had some serious dataloss issue with RAID5/RAID6 recently.

btrfs might not stable enough for a production environment but it has some nice features like snapshots, send/recieve, compression etc. I use zfs for my important date anyway.

CGIpaf 1.3.5 Released

April 13, 2016 less than 1 minute read

CGIpaf 1.3.5 has been released

Thunderbird: Importing s/mime certificate failed

January 17, 2016 3 minute read

thunderbird

On http://kb.mozillazine.org/Getting_an_SMIME_certificate you get a list of free s/mime certificate.

I ordered a free 30 days certificate at globalsign: https://www.globalsign.com/en/personalsign/trial/

The import of the pkcs12 failed in Thunderbird with the message: “The PKCS #12 operation failed for unknown reasons.”

Searching the internet didn’t provide a solution. To debug this issue I started to extract the private / certificate from the pkcs12 file provided by globalsign and creating a new one.

To execute this command I use an encrypted luks volume.