How To Encrypt existing home directory?

[Glenn Tobey]

On Tue, Mar 25, 2008 at 1:29 PM, Pedro Vanzella <ppvanzella at ppvanzella.com>
wrote:

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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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You may want to take a look at Truecypt <http://www.truecrypt.org/>
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