Life with Linux

For a variety of reasons I use Fedora Core 6 as my primary operating system, both at home and on my laptop. And for security reasons, I need to have my filesystem encrypted, so that in the event that my laptop is lost or stolen, my confidential data does not fall into the wrong hands.

Unfortunately, while Fedora Core 5 and 6 support an encrypted swap partition, it doesn’t yet support encrypted root filesystems. (Due to release timing, official support is currently targeted for Fedora Core 7.) However, that doesn’t mean it’s impossible. In fact, I’ve done it. This is the second of a two-part series on encrypting your Fedora Core system.

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For a variety of reasons I use Fedora Core 5 as my primary operating system, both at home and on my laptop. And for security reasons, I need to have my filesystem encrypted, so that in the event that my laptop is lost or stolen, my confidential data does not fall into the wrong hands.

Unfortunately, while Fedora Core 5 does support an encrypted swap partition, it doesn’t yet support encrypted root filesystems. (It’s looking like the support won’t make it into Fedora Core 6 either, due to release timing.) However, that doesn’t mean it’s impossible. In fact, I’ve done it. This is the first of a two-part series on encrypting your Fedora Core system.

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