> > The best would be, to have i.e. 3 encrypted partitions, give one > > passphrase at boottime, and that's it. > > If you don't want to type so many passwords, why not just use 1 > partition?
Is it useful, to have just a unencrypted /boot partition and encrypt all the rest on a second one? I thought the recommended way is to encrypt /home /tmp and /var because there my 'personal' files are - and let the rest unencrypted due to the perfomance ... > If you really want multiple encrypted partitions you'll probably have > to hack the init script in the initrd. The first google hit: > > http://www.debian-administration.org/articles/179 > > shows an example "mkinitrd.dmcrypt-usb" script. Just after it does a > cryptsetup on the rootfs you would setup your other two partitions. > > And, yes this is talking about a usb flash drive, but the basic ideas > apply to HD installations as well. Thanks for this hint. I found this link before, but didn't recognise that it could be useful for a hdd-encryption... sigi. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]