Rick Stevens wrote: > 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. An alternative for François would be to create a loopback filesystem and encrypt that. The result can be mounted at /home/jd/Documents/. Another alternative would be fuse-encfs. IMHO, I think encrypting / is the best all-around option. -- Todd OpenPGP -> KeyID: 0xBEAF0CE3 | URL: www.pobox.com/~tmz/pgp ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ The more corrupt the state, the more numerous the laws. -- Tacitus, Roman senator and historian (A.D. c.56-c.115)
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