[ale] Encrypted filesystem on netbook

[Andrew Grieser]

Brian,

What's your experience been with upgrades / clean installs? I like the
idea of having a separate home partition, and then when moving between
Ubuntu / Debian / Fedora it's just a matter of installing over the /
partition, and mounting the /home partition.

It sounds like with LUKS, that isn't going to be possible anymore. I
tried the alternate CD, and it gave me LVM inside of a "crypto"
partition. Rebooting and attempting to re-install (just to see how it
works) didn't give me any option to decrypt and install within the
crypto partition. The only option was to blow it away and start again.
Unless I was missing something.

Andrew


On Sun, Nov 22, 2009 at 9:02 PM, Brian Pitts <brian at polibyte.com> wrote:
> On 11/22/2009 08:48 PM, Andrew Grieser wrote:
>> For LUKS, what's the feasibility of mounting that from another system?
>
> Should work in any recent linux that has the right version of
> cryptsetup. I know in GNOME in Fedora if you connect an encrypted disk
> it will ask you for the passphrase then mount it.
>
> I've read that you can use it in Windows with freeotfe but have not
> tried it. Has anyone on the list done that?
>
> http://www.freeotfe.org/
>
> All the best,
> Brian Pitts
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