: Using USB key as real home and possible encryption?
"Walter Dnes" <waltdnes-SLHPyeZ9y/[email protected]>
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Let's say I want to go travelling with my laptop, and I don't want to lose confidential stuff if I lose the laptop. 64 and 128 gigabyte USB keys are now available. I intend to... * set up an innocuous /home/waltdnes directory on the laptop * format a 64 or 128 gigabyte USB key as ext2fs * copy the contents of my desktop's /home/waltdnes directory to the key * when I want to use the "desktop $HOME dir", I'll mount the USB key over top of /home/waltdnes, e.g... mount -t ext2 /dev/sdb1 /home/waltdnes So now the worry is not losing the USB key. Is there some form of transparent on-the-fly encryption available that would allow me to read *AND WRTE TO* the USB key? This is in case I lose the USB key. I'd be looking at encrypting the entire "/dev/sdb1" USB key partition. -- Walter Dnes <waltdnes-SLHPyeZ9y/[email protected]> I don't run "desktop environments"; I run useful applications -- The Toronto Linux Users Group. Meetings: http://gtalug.org/ TLUG requests: Linux topics, No HTML, wrap text below 80 columns How to UNSUBSCRIBE: http://gtalug.org/wiki/Mailing_lists