How To Encrypt existing home directory?

Glenn Tobey gletob at gmail.com
Tue Mar 25 17:19:38 UTC 2008


On Tue, Mar 25, 2008 at 1:11 PM, Pedro Vanzella <ppvanzella at ppvanzella.com>
wrote:

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> Hello!
> I want to encrypt my existing home directory (I don't mind losing the
> files, actually, I can make a backup) and the swap partition.
> Is there an easy how-to to help me do that? I looked around but all I
> found was some very long guides on how to change the file system to an
> ecrypted FS.
> By the way, my home partition is reiserFS.
>
> Thanks!
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If reinstalling is an option the alternate install cd offers an encryption
feature
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