On 21.9.2011 7:15, Perry Thompson wrote: >... > What are the pros and cons to creating a partition on the decrypted > drive? I would like to know which to do before proceeding with backing > up my /home. > > Thank you very much. Hi, I don't see any pros or cons since both methods seem to work. If you wanted to use the data on a Windows box, you might need to reconsider because the luks/lvm/ext-tools there aren't as flexible as on Linux. -- Juha Tuuna