-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Friday, 2012-02-03 at 11:48 +1100, Basil Chupin wrote:
On 31/01/12 23:48, zep wrote:
I don't quite understand this; with the model I mentioned before, you'd have all your data stored in a file which is then mounted as a partition. if you wanted to back up the files, the cleanest and easiest way would be to unmount the partition, attach the external media, copy the entire large file out to external media, remount and everything's done.
I am not sure if we are on the same wavelength but when my home directory was encrypted during installation I ended with a separate partition which is specifically identified on my system as another device and it shows up in Dolphin, eg, as "362GB Encrypted Container".
You can make sure it is a partition with "mount" and "losetup -a" In both cases (partition or loop mounted file) you can dump an encrypted backup with dd. And yes, you can encrypt an external disk on usb. Or a DVD. I have written the procedure on several occasions. - -- Cheers, Carlos E. R. (from 11.4 x86_64 "Celadon" at Telcontar) -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.16 (GNU/Linux) iEYEARECAAYFAk8sdW4ACgkQtTMYHG2NR9UStQCfcy7zGlGpw4xM9QinNvnpR4FH gHAAniv9xUEhZC4paOvStPGEG1gVA6DM =PGTM -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org