How To Encrypt existing home directory?

[Pedro Vanzella]

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Yeah, reinstalling is not my favorite option...
Is there another way?
And what kind of encryption does the alternate CD provide me with?

Thanks

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