On 6/6/07, Kai Ponte
My new laptop (HP/Compaq nw9440) runs SUSE 10.2 exclusively. I do have vmware and cxoffice for wintendo apps but no specific partition. My only partitions are root, home and swap.
My company has a new policy coming into effect, requiring all mobile devices have encryption built in. Though not entirely defined yet, I thought I'd get a jump on the process and encrypt my laptop. Good idea to do so, because I have source code, internal documents and whatnot there.
I googled and found two articles on encryption, one of which is SUSE specific.
http://www.linuxjournal.com/article/7743
http://en.opensuse.org/Encrypted_Root_File_System_with_SUSE_HOWTO
Both of them seem to point to creating the partition as encrypted. In fact, the opensuse article discusses creating several partitions then moving stuff to the encrypted one. :P
As I have my lapppie already built up and stuffed with important software (TuxCart, Amarok, Kaffeine, Ardour, iLives) and entertainment software (Netbeans, Visio, VMWare/XP) I don't want to re format if not necessary.
Any way I can go about encrypting without destrying the partitions?
As long as you have empty space on one you can try resizing it and creating a new encrypted partition with the partition tool. I usually encrypt home at install. If you cannot resize I think you maybe able to create an encrypted file and mounted using some loop mechanism I cannot remember exactly. Check this out: http://tldp.org/HOWTO/html_single/Cryptoloop-HOWTO/ HTH George
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