Kai Ponte wrote: > On Sun, December 30, 2007 6:50 am, Mike McMullin wrote: > > >>> Unless anyone has further suggestions, it appears I need to >>> downgrade >>> to Vista (which came with the laptop) and bite the bullet. >>> >>> Ideas? >>> >> Having followed your discussion on encrypting partitions, I was >> actually wondering if you might not just need to fake a partition in a >> file, encrypt the fake partition, and only mount that when needed? I >> already have 10.3 on my laptop, and running smooth enough, so I was >> pondering doing this for the stuff I need kept safe. >> >> > > Well, ideas happen at the weirdest moments. > > I woke up this morning by having my seven-year-old jump onto my bed > and almost crushing me in the process. > > For some reason, the first thought I had, while lying there in pain > was - hey: I can install XP on a smallish partition and have them > encrypt that. Then I install SUSE 10.3 on the rest of the machine and > it will be "compliant". > > I'm gonna try that. We'll see how it goes. > > > > How much has to be encrypted? You should be able to encrypt /home and perhaps use a swap file, and configure the system to delete the swap file on shut down and then recreate it on boot. You can also configure the system to clear /tmp on boot.
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