[plug] Disk/partition/fs encryption

[Steve Baker]

Thanks Chris and Brad for the tip on LUKS, will look into it. Cheers!


On 30/3/20 10:59 am, Chris Hoy Poy wrote:
> Yes, use LUKS / cryptsetup during install process.
>
> I have my own laptop set up in this manner, along with selinux, 
> secureboot and all the bios lockdown stuff you should have.
>
> Works out of the box with FedoraCore + Ubuntu (though I haven't done a 
> run through with Ubuntu in a couple years) on recent-ish hardware.
>
> Cheers
> /Chris
>
>
> On Mon, 30 Mar 2020, 10:54 am Steve Baker, <steve at iinet.net.au 
> <mailto:steve at iinet.net.au>> wrote:
>
>     Hi All,
>
>     I have Ubuntu Linux installed on my laptop, and I need to use some
>     level
>     of encryption on (some of) the contents of the storage.
>
>     It's a dual-boot with Windows, I don't need the Windows partition
>     encrypted. Currently the Linux installation uses a single
>     partition, I
>     can either encrypt that OR split off the contents of /home to a new
>     partition and just encrypt that.
>
>     Is it possible to just encrypt a single partition / filesystem like
>     this? Or is it better to encrypt the whole disk? Is encrypting the
>     whole
>     disk compatible with Linux/Windows dual-boot?  What is the
>     recommended
>     method/software/tools for this?
>
>     Thanks for your help.
>
>     Regards,
>     Steve
>
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