HI Forgive me for not reading this file before hand which explains how to encrypt a root and swap partition. Would it still be possible to use the howto I mentioned in my e-mail today and then use the example from the loop-aes readme file? Rodger -- Bis zu 70% Ihrer Onlinekosten sparen: GMX SmartSurfer! Kostenlos downloaden: http://www.gmx.net/de/go/smartsurfer - Linux-crypto: cryptography in and on the Linux system Archive: http://mail.nl.linux.org/linux-crypto/