On Tue, 2003-06-03 at 02:59, Guy Van Sanden wrote: > Hello > > I was wondering if anyone has been using Encrypted partitions in > Mandrake yet, and if their experience has been good. > Do they come up right after a crash? > What filesystem works best on them?
I use encrypted containers (files on a partition) that I build with the mkcryptfs script. I have 3 700 MB containers in my home directory (personal, work, and work archive), I picked this size, because once my archive container is full I can simply burn it to a CD and make a fstab entry for the file on the CD. mkcryptfs uses ext3 as the default filesystem in the containers. I do have the swap space set to encrypted as well. > I just bought a laptop, and I'm seriously considering to make the > home-directory encrypted... I chose against this just for the fact that during boot-up you need to enter the pass-phrase to access the partition or else it is not available, and you would then need multiple partitions for multiple users. -- ...Rob -- Putting the K in quality for 10^-2 centuries. ===================================================================== Robert Goshko Axis Computer Consulting Services, Inc President Sherwood Park, Alberta, Canada http://www.axis-dev.ca/ Supporting the Revolution In Your World ===================================================================== Registered Linux User #260513 GNU/Linux i686 2.4.21-0.13mdk-725ca 08:33:01 up 1:06, 4 users, load average: 1.10, 1.03, 1.01
signature.asc
Description: This is a digitally signed message part
