Re: Disk encryption questions
On Monday 30 May 2005 23:47, Gregory Seidman wrote:
> Symbolic links only contain the path. There is no inode information
> involved. This is not, however, the best way to deal with an encrypted
> disk. I much prefer to put LVM on top of an encrypted loop device to
> provide whatever partitions I need, and mount them in place rather than
> having symlinks lying around.
Hmmm, that's interesting. It would certainly be a more technically
interesting solution, but does it have any real advantages, for someone like
me who doesn't bother with seperate home partitions etc. usually?
> What you probably
> want to do is to write a script around it to create the loop (which
> requests the password) and attempt to mount; if the mount fails, the loop
> should be taken down and the process should be attempted again.
Yes, I was thinking of something like that. Thanks :)
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