On 10/6/07, Timo Myyrd  wrote:

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> 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.

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> Currently waiting for the urandom to fill the image...

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> 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