Anybody know a guide or reading material on learning how to encrypt hard drives ?

  • amanneedsamaid@sopuli.xyz
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    1 year ago

    Last I checked, Mint only allows you to encrypt your home partition. I know that Fedora supports full disk encryption via a toggle at installation.

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      1 year ago

      Mint only allows you to encrypt your home partition.

      Lol WTF? Cryptsetup has been a thing for what? Twenty years?

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        1 year ago

        encrypting /home is good if you have multiple users also eCryptfs is also thing for several years just like LUKS/dm-crypt

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          1 year ago

          /home encryption can be useful, but the fact that the installer does not offer FDE is laughable.

          Also don’t use ecryptfs, it sucks.

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            yeah, i love mint but have felt like its installer is severley lacking for a long time when it come to maore advance d stuff liek FDE, BTRFS, alternate bootloaders like suystemd-boot etc

            Also don’t use ecryptfs, it sucks.

            no clue there. i use luks on feodora and seem liek it works pretyy good.

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              no clue there. i use luks on feodora and seem liek it works pretyy good.

              Luks is fantastic. Ecryptfs not so much.

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      1 year ago

      Perhaps you had another partition with an operating system on the same disk, which prevented full disk encryption? If installing on an empty disk, most distros offer full disk encryption by default.

      • amanneedsamaid@sopuli.xyz
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        That definitely wasnt the case when I was last installing Mint, as I don’t dual boot and always select the option to overrite the entire disk during installation. The way I remember it, it says “[checkbox] Encrypt your home partition” with no other options. Not sure if there is an equivalent to Fedora’s settings or an advanced mode (like blivet-gui) to setup full disk encryption manually.