On Sun, 21 Dec 2008, David Nielsen wrote:
I've been running using dm-crypt for a while now but it seems to
me that
when all I have is some photos and documents I don't want to fall into the
wrong hands in case my machine is stolen, it's seems like overkill to
encrypt everything.
The overkill is pretty minimal imho.
Additionally it's some what cumbersome to have to unlock
the drive during boot.
don't you have the same issue with your homedir? I take it the password
for that should not be the same as your regular login password.
Another problem might be the performance hit of full
disk encryption on these low powered netbooks being unacceptable making
those a good target for a more lightweight solution?
Using it on my thinkpad x61, I don't notice it impacting me at all. I
even run other VM's that are files on the crypted fs.
Paul