I really reformat everything every six months... I went for the fresh install every time... the installation is a matter of 5 minutes, and I have a script to install the software I need... so in total a clean install takes ~1-2 hours tops... BUT for the /home thing...
On Fri, May 3, 2013 at 9:22 PM, Bryan Irvine <sparcta...@gmail.com> wrote: > re-installation process? do you mean upgrade? or do you really re-format > every 6 months? > > > On Fri, May 3, 2013 at 12:18 PM, Pau <vim.u...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> Dear all, >> >> I am usually following the stable release of Obsd and I like to have my >> home encrypted. I followed a guide that my friend Dave detailed for me, and >> I usually do it like this: >> >> dd if=/dev/arandom of=/home/wd0h.fs bs=1m count=1024_times_your_GB_here >> vnconfig -k svnd0 /home/wd0h.fs >> newfs /dev/rsvnd0c >> cd / >> mount /dev/svnd0c /home/ >> >> I.e. I create a huge file with arandom that occupies all of my home and >> then I use vnconfig to mount it every time I reboot the laptop. >> >> However, the process takes a loooong time. >> >> I have two questions: >> >> 1- How could I make the home partition "survive" the reinstallation >> process every release (i.e. every six months)? When I am prompted with the >> partition tool during install I find myself kind of lost to edit the >> partition in which home lives as "/home/pau" and I end up erasing it and >> redoing the process, which is a huge waste of time (encryption plus >> transfer of data, we're talking about GBs here, a lot) >> >> 2- Is there a "more modern" way of encrypting home than what I wrote >> above? I have read some things in the documentation, but a step by step >> example after a clean install of how to encrypt the whole /home would be >> very much appreciated (remember, this mailing list is for newbies!!!) >> >> Thanks a lot! >> >> >> Pau >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Openbsd-newbies mailing list >> Openbsd-newbies@sfobug.theapt.org >> http://mailman.theapt.org/listinfo/openbsd-newbies >> >> >
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