John Maher wrote:
With the generous assistance of Marc Schwartz, I finally figured out how
to encrypt /home on a Fedora Core 5 machine. In the interest of making
this procedure more available to people learning about cryptsetup, I
have written the following HOWTO. Any comments would be greatly
appreciated.
<snip>
John,
Glad that you got it working and appreciate the comment.
I see that you have moved to FC5, whereas we started the original thread
on FC4. I presume you figured that this would be a good time to update,
as indeed it is.
A couple of thoughts:
1. Unless I am going blind in my middle age, I did not see a step in
your HOWTO about prefilling the disk partition with random data. This is
Step 1a/b in WOS's wiki entry. Is there a complication when using LVM2
in terms of doing this or is this a missing critical step (perhaps with
some differences in process) in the sequence?
2. You should give serious consideration to posting this process on the
wiki, where it is likely to get more visibility and be easier to access,
especially when using Google searches. You might even want to post a
note about it with a link on the FC lists where you will likely make
many people smile. :-)
Great work!
Regards,
Marc Schwartz
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