[plug] Not strictly linux ...

Jeremy Malcolm Jeremy at Malcolm.wattle.id.au
Mon Apr 30 08:20:58 WST 2001


Jeremy Malcolm wrote:
> 
> Either GPG with -c option (symmetric cypher rather than public key
> encryption) or mount the floppy as a loopback device with encryption
> (losetup -e blowfish /dev/loop0 /dev/fd0 ; mkfs -t ext2 /dev/loop0 ; mnt
> -t ext2 /dev/loop0 /mnt).

Um just in case you don't realise it that second option will delete
whatever's on the floppy, so make sure you have a backup of it before
performing that operation.  When remounting the floppy you omit the
middle command.

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