cryptsetup dm_mod

[Todd Zullinger]

Rick Stevens wrote:
> You can only encrypt entire devices (e.g. partitions), not
> individual directories or directory trees.
>
> I'm not sure how your partitioning is set up, but if you used the
> default, then you have a "/boot" partition and a "/" partition
> (which contains the /home directory).  If that's the case, you can
> only encrypt /, not /home or /home/jd or /home/jd/Documents.
>
> In other words, you can only encrypt items starting with "/dev" in
> the first column of the output of the "mount" command.  There are
> exceptions (encrypted NFS volumes and the like), but for 95% of the
> world, the preceeding is true.

An alternative for François would be to create a loopback filesystem
and encrypt that.  The result can be mounted at /home/jd/Documents/.

Another alternative would be fuse-encfs.

IMHO, I think encrypting / is the best all-around option.

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