OK !! Suse Gods & Gurus I have posted this question many times to reiser.com (in the very best plain english possible) yet no-one understands what the hell I'm talking about... Hyperthetical: I installed suse 9.2, configuring the partitions, during the installation, as follows: / 20GB ReiserFS /home 70GB ReiserFS Encrypted /swap 300MB swap My / partition is destroyed during the Suse9.3 upgrade. My /home directory is lost forever because I don't have the crypto/encryption key to match my password. Some of the replies have had me nearly in tears. I don't want to know how to back up personal data or require any lessons on tar. I basically want to know where is the encryption key is stored or What should I have done or what config files should I have backed up. When I encrypt a partition, there has to be a key/password stored somewhere.... cheers..