Re: enxcryption of the whole system

[Brett Viren <bv@bnl.gov>]

"Hans-J. Ullrich" <hans.ullrich@loop.de> writes:

> I want to encrypt my whole system = all partitions. I only found Debian 
> related howto, which only tell me it, to do this during the installation 
> (using LVM and so on), As I have installed my whole system already and do not 
> format and reinstall my partitions, I would like to encrypt it now.

There is a howto on making an almost fully encrypted bootable USB
flash drive.  It should work just as well on an HD if you can mount
the HD on a host system and then transfer it to the real one.  I say
"almost" because it leaves /boot unencrypted, iirc.

Ah, here it is:

http://www.debian-administration.org/articles/179

-Brett.