Sri S wrote:
Hello,
I’d like to make an ext3 partition that cannot be mounted easily on
another system. I don’t want to use loop-aes to encrypt the partition
because of the performance hit. I also don’t need it to be very
secure, I just need to prevent someone from taking the drive from my
system and reading the data off of it.
I was thinking about one or a combination of one of options:
1. Changing the partition’s ext3 magic number to some other magic
number that only I recognize
2. Changing the location of the super-block and backup super blocks
Maybe you could simply use a loop-device with the "offset" option.
It would be trivial to mount the partition (one would just have to issue
the correct options to mount and/or losetup), but recognizing the
beginning of the filesystem and guessing the correct offset would
require some (minimal) knowledge about EXT3 layout.
HTH,
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