On Sun, Dec 21, 2008 at 07:47:15PM +0100, 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. Additionally it's some what cumbersome to have to unlock > the drive during boot. 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? Won't solve your unlocking problem, but why not have a separate encrypted /home partition? I've had separate /home partitions for years, not for encryption, just because that's the directory I really care about, so I want to be able to handle it specially anyway. The other reason to _not_ encrypt the system directories is so that system files can be easily mmapped into memory. And after all, there is no secret in the system files. Rich. -- Richard Jones, Emerging Technologies, Red Hat http://et.redhat.com/~rjones virt-p2v converts physical machines to virtual machines. Boot with a live CD or over the network (PXE) and turn machines into Xen guests. http://et.redhat.com/~rjones/virt-p2v -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
