Boyd Waters wrote: >I am not certain, but I do not think you can perform in-place encryption >of your data. >In any event, I would STRONGLY encourage you to purchase that disk and >do the backup before attempting to experiment with block-level encryption! Thanks! ;) Maybe I will. Just as a pointer: http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic.php?t=31363&highlight=loopaes&sid=cb3aa22 f67e11a2379b78dc95db5fe59 This little dude (13 years younger than me!) is doing encryption of his root file system after an install. So it's supposed to work I gather. Think I will give it a whirl on a test system. Thanks so far! -stian - Linux-crypto: cryptography in and on the Linux system Archive: http://mail.nl.linux.org/linux-crypto/
