I have read in manuals that encrypting a partition erases all data on it, ok, I understand why. Now I am interested in viable method to do it.
My disk layout is following:
sda1 /
sda2 swap
sda3 /home
sda4 ntfs
/home is quite large, but I dont have too much data on it. I do have large external drive, partition already backed/backing up with rsync so I have no problem of “loosing” data.
What would be the best way to encrypt home?
- rsync it, log in as root, encrypt partition, restore data with rsync?
- gzip it, move it, encrypt, restore?
3…?
4…?
Ah yes… one more thing is important, I would like it to be done to work seemlessly… something like, login and go. Should I use YaST for encprypting partition or something else?
oo yes… one more question.
If system breaks, whether me break it or whatever, installing new version, will encryption be working also, or will I have problems.
Sorry for this noob questions, but I never used encryption in this way. Only by TrueCrypt or similar.
Thanks