On Mon, 30 Nov 2015 08:38:50 -0500 Sam Varshavchik <mrsam(a)courier-mta.com> wrote:
Ranjan Maitra writes:
> On Sun, 29 Nov 2015 20:29:09 -0800 Gordon Messmer <gordon.messmer(a)gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
> > On 11/29/2015 05:59 PM, Ranjan Maitra wrote:
> > > Thanks! I was wondering about this some more. Can I not put this tool
> > > luksipc on a LiveCD and then compile and run it from there? Then the
> > > actual disks would be "offline", isn't that correct?
> >
> > Yes, but you don't really need to do that. You just need to unmount the
> > filesystem you want to encrypt.
>
> But there is only one filesystem (/dev/sda) and one HDD on these two
> laptops. Therefore, I am not sure how to do this other than through going in
> through a LiveCD.
In this case, this is not possible. /boot cannot be encrypted. If you have
one / partition, and /boot lives on it, it cannot be encrypted.
Thanks! But I was talking about encrypting the /home partition which is separate. Does
this make a difference?
Best wishes,
Ranjan
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