On Sun, 3 Jan 2010, Edward Ned Harvey wrote: > It's not impossible to break the volume into smaller volumes, but that > doesn't gain anything.
Maybe I'm not understanding your problem completely. I thought one of the complaints you had was that if you changed some small thing in the TrueCrypt container, you would then have to backup the whole file again. If you break it into smaller logical pieces (passwords in one, something else in another), then only when you change something in that piece would you have to back up the file again. Obviously, yes, if something changes in all of your TrueCrypt volumes, you're still left with having to back them all up. > Also, a long time ago, I did use a bunch of smaller volumes, and found it > annoying because if I wanted to use more than one, I'd have to mount more > than once. Soon learned it was far more convenient to put the various > encrypted volumes all into a single larger volume. You could script the mounting and create a larger filesystem out of the various volumes, but yes, that's more work. I'm sure there are some creative ways to deal with not having the sparse file functionality you want, but none of them sound ideal for your needs. I'm curious if you've had any responses as to alternatives to TrueCrypt that do more of what you want. -Adam _______________________________________________ Tech mailing list [email protected] http://lopsa.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tech This list provided by the League of Professional System Administrators http://lopsa.org/
