On Sun, 21 Dec 2008, David Nielsen wrote: > I've been running using dm-crypt for a while now but it seems to me that > when all I have is some photos and documents I don't want to fall into the > wrong hands in case my machine is stolen, it's seems like overkill to > encrypt everything. The overkill is pretty minimal imho. > Additionally it's some what cumbersome to have to unlock > the drive during boot. don't you have the same issue with your homedir? I take it the password for that should not be the same as your regular login password. > Another problem might be the performance hit of full > disk encryption on these low powered netbooks being unacceptable making > those a good target for a more lightweight solution? Using it on my thinkpad x61, I don't notice it impacting me at all. I even run other VM's that are files on the crypted fs. Paul -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
