Re: Planning for Disk Encryption

2013-05-09 Thread benjamin kent
Additionally using RAID 1 comes into mind. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/518b9e10.5080...@online.de

Re: Planning for Disk Encryption

2013-05-03 Thread T o n g
On Thu, 02 May 2013 09:19:32 +0200, tv.deb...@googlemail.com wrote: >>So, what would you plan for normal home users on disk failure for Disk >>Encryption? How to cope with it? > > > Hi, I guess what you are referring to can happen if you get bad sectors > where the luks header resides. This is a

Re: Planning for Disk Encryption

2013-05-02 Thread Kelly Clowers
On Thu, May 2, 2013 at 6:43 PM, Chris Bannister wrote: > [Please don't top post] > > On Thu, May 02, 2013 at 08:35:27AM -0700, Steven Rosenberg wrote: >> Tighten up on your backups. I've been running encrypted partitions (and > > Umm, I've heard of the expression "tighten up on your spending", To

Re: Planning for Disk Encryption

2013-05-02 Thread Chris Bannister
[Please don't top post] On Thu, May 02, 2013 at 08:35:27AM -0700, Steven Rosenberg wrote: > Tighten up on your backups. I've been running encrypted partitions (and Umm, I've heard of the expression "tighten up on your spending", and "tighten up on your drinking" which means "ease up/slow down". I

Re: Planning for Disk Encryption

2013-05-02 Thread Steven Rosenberg
Tighten up on your backups. I've been running encrypted partitions (and full disk encryption) for years, and I haven't had a disk problem. Had plenty of other problems (just had a motherboard go bad), and I'm glad I had the backups. -- Steven Rosenberg http://stevenrosenberg.net/blog http://blogs.

Re: Planning for Disk Encryption

2013-05-02 Thread tv.deb...@googlemail.com
On 05/01/13 06:23, T o n g wrote: My understanding/impression is that with Full Disk Encryption, even a single bad sector will have a much larger impact than itself and might ruin the whole disk. ... So, what would you plan for normal home users on disk failure for Disk Encryption? How to cope wit

Re: Planning for Disk Encryption

2013-05-01 Thread David Christensen
On 05/01/13 06:23, T o n g wrote: My understanding/impression is that with Full Disk Encryption, even a single bad sector will have a much larger impact than itself and might ruin the whole disk. ... So, what would you plan for normal home users on disk failure for Disk Encryption? How to cope

Re: Planning for Disk Encryption

2013-05-01 Thread staticsafe
On 5/1/2013 9:23, T o n g wrote: > Hi, > > It's well known that fail to plan means plan to fail. But when comes to > Disk Encryption, I did not see any reasonably planning on disk failure, > even though I've googled extensively. > > My understanding/impression is that with Full Disk Encryptio

Planning for Disk Encryption

2013-05-01 Thread T o n g
Hi, It's well known that fail to plan means plan to fail. But when comes to Disk Encryption, I did not see any reasonably planning on disk failure, even though I've googled extensively. My understanding/impression is that with Full Disk Encryption, even a single bad sector will have a much l