François Patte wrote:
-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Bonjour, I want to use cryptsetup to encrypt partitions and directories. When I use cryptsetup: cryptsetup --verbose --verify-passphrase luksFormat /home/jd/Documents/ for instance, the answer is: Command failed: Cannot communicate with device-mapper. Is the dm_mod module loaded? OK! but I cannot find any dm_mod module on my system and I don't know what package provides this module....
You can only encrypt entire devices (e.g. partitions), not individual directories or directory trees. I'm not sure how your partitioning is set up, but if you used the default, then you have a "/boot" partition and a "/" partition (which contains the /home directory). If that's the case, you can only encrypt /, not /home or /home/jd or /home/jd/Documents. In other words, you can only encrypt items starting with "/dev" in the first column of the output of the "mount" command. There are exceptions (encrypted NFS volumes and the like), but for 95% of the world, the preceeding is true. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- - Rick Stevens, Systems Engineer ricks@xxxxxxxx - - AIM/Skype: therps2 ICQ: 22643734 Yahoo: origrps2 - - - - Animal testing is futile. They always get nervous and give the - - wrong answers - ---------------------------------------------------------------------- -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines
