Hello I don't see the point in encrypting / if you put all your personal data on the /home partition. Then / contains just the operating system, and that's nothing someone who steals your computer would be interested in. Is my thinking correct here? -- Der GMX SmartSurfer hilft bis zu 70% Ihrer Onlinekosten zu sparen! Ideal für Modem und ISDN: http://www.gmx.net/de/go/smartsurfer - Linux-crypto: cryptography in and on the Linux system Archive: http://mail.nl.linux.org/linux-crypto/