Jim MacBaine wrote: > I came to the idea to encrypt my /home dir, > which is on a separate filesystem. I already > had a data dir encrypted with loop-aes and > expirienced no problems with it. The procedure > of copying the whole /home structure to some > backup place, setting up the encrypted fs, and > copying it back didn't osunt very pleasent to > me. > > I thought, why not encrypt a block device by > block. Why not create a loop device on top of > my file system and copy block by block from > the real device onto the loop device. > > I tried this with a floppy and the result > seems very strange to me. I can mount the > resulting loop device, but the files are missing > > Can anyone of you please explain what happens > here? I have attached the exact procedure. You should do "sync" before trying to mount the block device if you directly wrote to same block device. It's a cache coherency issue on 2.4 kernels if I remember correctly. Also, use "bs=4096" or larger for better performance. Regards, Jari Ruusu <jari.ruusu@pp.inet.fi> - Linux-crypto: cryptography in and on the Linux system Archive: http://mail.nl.linux.org/linux-crypto/
