Re: HOWTO: Encrypting /home with cryptsetup-luks on Fedora Core 5

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Jan Reusch wrote:
Marc Schwartz schrieb:


2. You would not be able to (easily) cover and protect file "slack"
space, which is the residual space in an allocated file sector beyond
where the file data itself is stored. The only way to reasonably and
easily cover this is to write random data to the drive before copying
data files to the media.


thank you thats a good reason. didn't think of the "slack" space of
filesystems :)

And again, it is not just writing 0's

i never said that ;)

Yep. You are correct and I apologize.

I mis-read that part of your post.

thank you for the answer

Happy to help.

Regards,

Marc


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