Re: [gentoo-user] Using USB key as real $HOME and possible encryption?

2014-04-29 Thread Walter Dnes
On Mon, Apr 28, 2014 at 09:51:18PM -0400, Rick Zero_Chaos Farina wrote I suggest with LUKS. Also I suggest using ext4 and disabling the journal (mkfs.ext4 -O ^has_journal). I didn't know you could do that, but what's the point? I'm not trying to be argumentative, but isn't ext4 without a

Re: [gentoo-user] Using USB key as real $HOME and possible encryption?

2014-04-29 Thread Rick Zero_Chaos Farina
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 04/29/2014 12:27 PM, Walter Dnes wrote: On Mon, Apr 28, 2014 at 09:51:18PM -0400, Rick Zero_Chaos Farina wrote I suggest with LUKS. Also I suggest using ext4 and disabling the journal (mkfs.ext4 -O ^has_journal). I didn't know you could

Re: [gentoo-user] Using USB key as real $HOME and possible encryption?

2014-04-29 Thread Walter Dnes
On Tue, Apr 29, 2014 at 01:32:46PM -0400, Rick Zero_Chaos Farina wrote On 04/29/2014 12:27 PM, Walter Dnes wrote: Another couple of things I didn't realize. According to https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Dm-crypt I have to build in support for the crypt target in the kernel. It also

Re: [gentoo-user] Using USB key as real $HOME and possible encryption?

2014-04-29 Thread Rick Zero_Chaos Farina
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 04/29/2014 03:58 PM, Walter Dnes wrote: On Tue, Apr 29, 2014 at 01:32:46PM -0400, Rick Zero_Chaos Farina wrote On 04/29/2014 12:27 PM, Walter Dnes wrote: Another couple of things I didn't realize. According to

Re: [gentoo-user] Using USB key as real $HOME and possible encryption?

2014-04-29 Thread Mick
On Wednesday 30 Apr 2014 03:50:12 Rick Zero_Chaos Farina wrote: On 04/29/2014 03:58 PM, Walter Dnes wrote: On Tue, Apr 29, 2014 at 01:32:46PM -0400, Rick Zero_Chaos Farina wrote On 04/29/2014 12:27 PM, Walter Dnes wrote: Another couple of things I didn't realize. According to

[gentoo-user] Using USB key as real $HOME and possible encryption?

2014-04-28 Thread Walter Dnes
I want to set up my notebook for use whilst travelling. I intend to have an innocuous /home/waltdnes partion on the notebook, and have the real $HOME (a copy of my desktop machine's $HOME) on a 128 gigabyte USB key. When I want to access it, I'll mount the USB key over /home/waltdnes. That

Re: [gentoo-user] Using USB key as real $HOME and possible encryption?

2014-04-28 Thread Rick Zero_Chaos Farina
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 04/28/2014 04:57 PM, Walter Dnes wrote: I want to set up my notebook for use whilst travelling. I intend to have an innocuous /home/waltdnes partion on the notebook, and have the real $HOME (a copy of my desktop machine's $HOME) on a 128