On Fri, Sep 18, 2009 at 13:03:50 -0400, "Weiner, Michael" <wein...@ccf.org> wrote: > List readers – > > Some time ago, approximately April 2009, I encrypted a Fedora 10 system which > I later upgraded to Fedora 11, with no problem. My problem is that I didn’t > document how I did it at the time, as I was just playing with disk encryption > on a sandbox machine and never thought I would need to do it in production. > Recently my place of employment, thanks in part to new HIPAA regulations due > to data theft, is requiring ALL laptops to be encrypted – one problem, I > don’t remember how I did it without loosing any data. The only thing I can > remember is that it was a pretty simple task that I performed without moving > data from one partition to another, or re-installing the OS. Googling such a > process, has led me to read many pages and documentation out there, but to no > avail. I can NOT find anywhere anything documenting encrypting a live > filesytem without data loss. Has anyone here done this? I could have sworn > that the original work I did was based on an email or discussion on this l > ist, but I cant find anything. Yes yes yes I know – ALWAYS put it in the > wiki ☺ > > I have looked at a number of solutions like truecrypt etc, but nothing seems > like it will work without eating data. Though I have heard that cryptsetup > will do this. > > Any advice or assistance would be GREATLY appreciated.
If you are going to be doing a fresh install it's pretty easy. Do a custom file system layout when running anaconda and check the encryption box for the partitions you want encrypted. You can encrypt all partitions except the one /boot is on (usually its own partition). It all works pretty neat. -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@redhat.com To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines
