Full Disk Encryption

[J. Bakshi]

On Sat, 26 Nov 2011 13:02:14 +0530
"J. Bakshi" <bakshi12 at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hello,
> 
> I am always interested in Full disk encryption for my laptop ( i5 + 3 GB ), but what makes me stop
> is the thinking of performance lag. Recently I have seen an ububtu laptop ( i5 + 4 GB ) with full
> disk encryption and it is performing normal, haven't found any lag...
> 
> So I am interested to give the FDE a try on my own laptop. How can I proceed ? My laptop is debian wheezy
> with lots of important data.. so backup is must.. but what next ? What configuration will give me a better
> performance , LVM based or simple partition based ? Presently excluding swap I have 3 reiserfs partition for / ; /home
> and /movie ... no LVM. Please sharing your experience
> 
> Thanks

Forgot to mention: apache, mysql are also running... so don't know the performance hit
after full disk encryption