Nick Guenther wrote:
quoted text > On 10/6/07, Timo Myyrd <zmyrgel@nerdshack.com> wrote:
>
>> I have read the mount_vnd manual page and it describes the mount options
>> of the image that are needed to succesfully mount the partition on boot
>> but didn't reveal if there's a method to encrypt whole partition. I know
>> it will give me small performance hit to encrypt whole partition but it
>> should be OK. I had all of my HD except the /boot partition encrypted
>> with Linux and I didn't notice any difference in casual use.
>>
>> Currently waiting for the urandom to fill the image...
>>
>> Timo
>>
>
> Hm? I don't understand what you don't understand.
> There's no such thing as a half-encrypted svnd (=partition). If you
> can mount an encrypted svnd then you have a totally encrypted drive.
> If you put it in fstab even better, but you need to somehow get it to
> ask you for a password (-k) or give it a saltfile (-K) from somewhere
> when it does that (and you better not store that password on the same
> laptop).
>
> -Nick
>
>
>
I mean that can I encrypt my /dev/sd0g directly instead of creating
image in it and encrypting and mounting that image as /home.
I tried to read about the svnd and it only seems to work on files.
Timo
