Re: Protect/Backup Encrypted FS

2005-04-08 Thread David Masover
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Shannon wrote: > I haven't received a reply to this, so I'm going to be more specific: > > When you create an encrypted partition, where is this configuration stored? > > On Tue, 5 Apr 2005 02:48 pm, Shannon wrote: > >>/ 10GBReiser >

Re: Protect/Backup Encrypted FS

2005-04-08 Thread David Masover
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Chester R. Hosey wrote: > What configuration? I'm not really sure what you're asking, which means > that it's difficult to formulate an answer. People on this list are > generally very willing to help, but their ability to help is limited by > how much

Re: Protect/Backup Encrypted FS

2005-04-08 Thread Hubert Chan
> "Chester" == Chester R Hosey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Chester> As far as backing up a partition and restoring that backup, use Chester> tar. GNU tar (which is almost certainly the default on Chester> GNU/Linux systems) is quite full-featured and should be able to Chester> serve your needs

Re: Protect/Backup Encrypted FS

2005-04-08 Thread Hubert Chan
> "Shannon" == Shannon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Shannon> I haven't received a reply to this, so I'm going to be more Shannon> specific: When you create an encrypted partition, where is this Shannon> configuration stored? How did you encrypt the partition? Are you using loop-AES? dm-crypt

Re: Protect/Backup Encrypted FS

2005-04-08 Thread Bedros Hanounik
I have a very similar problem; Assume that I created an ecnrypted partition using reiserfs. I know I can access the partition after a regular boot, but what if I used LiveCD? What data (and where it's stored) I need in order to access that partition using knoppix LiveCD for example. I wan

Re: Protect/Backup Encrypted FS

2005-04-08 Thread Chester R. Hosey
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 What configuration? I'm not really sure what you're asking, which means that it's difficult to formulate an answer. People on this list are generally very willing to help, but their ability to help is limited by how much information you give about what

Re: Protect/Backup Encrypted FS

2005-04-08 Thread Shannon
I haven't received a reply to this, so I'm going to be more specific: When you create an encrypted partition, where is this configuration stored? On Tue, 5 Apr 2005 02:48 pm, Shannon wrote: > / 10GBReiser > /home 40GBReiser encrypted FS > /swap 300mb > > > As per the harddrive

Protect/Backup Encrypted FS

2005-04-04 Thread Shannon
/ 10GBReiser /home 40GBReiser encrypted FS /swap 300mb As per the harddrive configuration, if my / partition becomes corrupted or if I choose to install a fresh copy of SuSe9.2 Pro over / and remount /home, what do need to backup or how do I backup the files needed to