f9 encrypted fs - how???

Bill Davidsen davidsen at tmr.com
Fri Oct 3 12:55:23 UTC 2008


Wolfgang S. Rupprecht wrote:
> I see lots of references that F9 supports a encrypted filesystems
> natively and I recall that the installer even offered to set up
> encryption for me.  The question is, how does one set up encryption
> later on?  I can't find any recent documentation.  Google has millions
> of hits for all sorts of crazy schemes dating back to very early
> fedoras, but I have yet to find documentation for how to do it in F9,
> other than reinstalling things from scratch.  Anyone have any
> pointers?
> 
I believe you can do it with a partition or a file, but I don't remember where I 
saw the info on that. You probably need to look at LUKS docs, I saw an example 
of creating a file and making a LUKS mount using it.

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