* rodger ellis <rellis@xxxxxxx> wrote: > 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? Additionally to what's been said already: If one doesn't want to worry about adapting one's distro in such a way that no info whatsoever about /home is revealed, encrypting the system completely is the way to go. Lots of distros have some kind of cronjob by default to index files. Try running locate on a file you have in encrypted /home SSH session to my laptop: root@falcon:~# locate .muttrc /home/chef/.muttrc /home is encrypted and currently not mounted. Granted, it's all about one's paranoia level, but it's important to know both about possible drawbacks of only a partial system encryption and the means available/necessary to counteract its overall effects. -- left blank, right bald
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