Encrypted Dapper filesystems?

[pulver]

Pros:



Securing the data on the disk (is there any other way?).



Cons:



Somewhat performance loss. 



Change of standards could brake the functionality, upgrading to the
latest bleeding edge stuff could make the system unusable/unbootable,
if you don't know what you're doing. In these cases, some tweaking and
fiddeling may be needed to get around this.



Full system backups ála partimage (which won't work). After filling the
partition(s) with lots of garbage data, lots of garbage data will be
going into your backups. On the other hand there are other ways to
backup stuff.



This should be on pros really, but for obvious reasons you cannot
access your encrypted data from another system (for ex if you dual boot
or use a livecd) without decrypting it first. 



Suggestions:



Go for it. As always, always backup important data.


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pulver