carlopmart wrote:
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> Guillaume Duali wrote:
>> Hello,
>> perhaps this HowTo will help you ?
>>
>> http://geektechnique.org/projectlab/797/openbsd-encrypted-nas-howto
>>
>> See you :)
>> Guillaume.
>> ---
>> carlopmart a icrit :
>>> Hi all,
>>>
>>>  How can I encrypt a whole partition with OpenBSD 4.1 or 
>>> 4.2-current?? I  only info about encrypt image files and not 
>>> partitions ....
>>>
>>> many thanks.
>>>
>>
> In this howto only explains howto encrypt sparse files and not 
> partitions ..
>

the technique in the article does not only apply to sparse files. have 
an encrypted /var on some of my webservers and the procedure is 
identical to what's in the link further down (starts with the dd-ing of 
an image file).

do note it's not possible to encrypt all partitions using vnconfig. for 
the time being this is the best you can do: encrypt images and mount 
them after using vnconfig.