Christoph Eckert wrote: >>I was planning to use dmcrypt on my /home partition and I read the >>proceedure on the Gentoo Wiki. I think though, that the proceedures >>given there are for new partitions without a filesystem. Maybe I am >>wrong. > > > I didn't read it, but if this encryption crypts a complete partition, > then I'd like to recommend to better use a crypted loopback mounted > file. The reason is backup: In the latter case you can simply compress > the crypted container and back it up - it is still crypted. > > I did it this way some time ago and found it very convenient. > > >>Anyway, I wondered if there would be any problem with temporarily >>moving my /home data to some new directory on /usr, then using the >>dmcrypt on the /home directory, and finally copying all of the old >>/home data back onto the new encrypted partition? > > > Put it in a tarball preserving all file attributes (ownership and other > flags) and untar it into the crypted container after mounting it. > > > Best regards > > > ce > > Thank you. A very good idea i.e. the tar file.
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