[Tfug] Encrypting the WHOLE DISK - practical?

[Matt Jacob]

I know that Seagate recently came out with a drive that does hardware
FDE, but apart from that, it seems like you'd run into some problems
with a software solution (e.g. resource-intensive, encrypted boot
partition). If you can get your data onto a separate partition,
something like TrueCrypt would probably work well for you.

Matt

On 4/13/07, Jim March <1.jim.march at gmail.com> wrote:
> Folks,
>
> My laptop only has a 60gig HD.  It's split now into 57gig boot and working,
> 2gig swap.
>
> I've tried to split off /home into another partition but, I can never really
> be sure how much data vs. programs I'm going to be playing with.
>
> Now I've got a bit of a crisis: I've been hired to go onsite to another
> state and investigate a group of scammers.  Long story I won't go into but
> the possibility my laptop will be taken is moderately high.  I need a simple
> method of doing whole-disk encryption.
>
> Plus somebody else doing election oversight just got burgled of a single
> thing: her laptop's hard drive.  Which was replaced with another, similar
> drive, although blank.  Wrong brand though.
>
> My main partition is now Ext3.  If I have to reformat in XFS or something I
> will, but...I need to do something quick here.
>
> Tips?
>
> Oh yeah, I'm running Ubuntu Feisty Beta right now.  (GREAT stuff by the
> way!)
>
> Jim
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