I have an existing CentOS installation and need to encrypt certain partitions. Encrypting after the fact would be my preference, as re-installing this system would be rather complicated.
Chris On Mon, Nov 1, 2010 at 4:00 PM, charlie <[email protected]> wrote: > Are you doing a fresh install or planning to encrypt an existing OS? > > I'm sure others do too, but I know for sure Ubuntu and Centos have > options for full disk encryption on install. I believe Ubuntu requires > the alternate-install disk. I've only done http installs for Centos, > so I can't say for sure the encryption option is there with a disk > install. > > -Charlie > > On Mon, Nov 1, 2010 at 3:58 PM, John Wolfe <[email protected]> wrote: > > On 11/01/2010 03:42 PM, Chris McQuistion wrote: > >> > >> Are there any nice full disk encryption systems for Linux? (How-To's > >> would be appreciated) > > > > I don't have too much experience with full disk encryption, but I believe > > what you're looking for is a dm-crypt/LUKS setup. > > > > You can probably cannibalize most of this howto for another distro: > > > https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/System_Encryption_with_LUKS_for_dm-crypt > > > > Regards, > > > > -- > > John Wolfe > > Developer & System Administrator, OnWav: http://www.onwav.com > > Desk Phone: (931)-881-1542 | Mobile Phone: (931)-284-9789 > > > > -- > > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > > "NLUG" group. > > To post to this group, send email to [email protected] > > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > > [email protected]<nlug-talk%[email protected]> > > For more options, visit this group at > > http://groups.google.com/group/nlug-talk?hl=en > > > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "NLUG" group. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected] > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > [email protected]<nlug-talk%[email protected]> > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/nlug-talk?hl=en > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "NLUG" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/nlug-talk?hl=en
