09-26-2014, 07:12 PM
You're welcome, m654321. Glad it all worked out.
I haven't messed around much with encrypting partitions/folders, so not really knowledgeable on intricacies for that. But, I personally don't see the point in your case of encrypting the /home folder since it only contains program config files. All of your important data files are on the DATA partition. If I were going to encrypt something, I'd encrypt the DATA partition. My limited understanding is that encryption is more for protection against someone physically getting hold of your hard drive and trying to read the info off of it. When encrypted they can't read it.
As far as it helping protect against some type of malware goes? I'm not sure about that. I'd guess that might be the case if the encrypted volume was not mounted and opened with the password at the time of an attack; but once the volume is unencrypted by the password I think the protection is gone until it gets unmounted again.
If you are thinking of encrypting the DATA partition, it would be a good idea to make a brand new post about that. Ask if others have a setup where an encrypted volume is accessed by both Linux and Windows and what the procedure is for setting something like that up. I don't have the knowledge to guide you through that.
(09-26-2014, 05:52 PM)m654321 link Wrote: PS. Are there any benefits to encrypting the home folder on LL2 (as in the LL guidance notes)? Would it give added protection against malware? I am the only user (home user) of the win7/LL2 dual-boot system. If I encrypted, would files be still accessible by win7?
I haven't messed around much with encrypting partitions/folders, so not really knowledgeable on intricacies for that. But, I personally don't see the point in your case of encrypting the /home folder since it only contains program config files. All of your important data files are on the DATA partition. If I were going to encrypt something, I'd encrypt the DATA partition. My limited understanding is that encryption is more for protection against someone physically getting hold of your hard drive and trying to read the info off of it. When encrypted they can't read it.
As far as it helping protect against some type of malware goes? I'm not sure about that. I'd guess that might be the case if the encrypted volume was not mounted and opened with the password at the time of an attack; but once the volume is unencrypted by the password I think the protection is gone until it gets unmounted again.
If you are thinking of encrypting the DATA partition, it would be a good idea to make a brand new post about that. Ask if others have a setup where an encrypted volume is accessed by both Linux and Windows and what the procedure is for setting something like that up. I don't have the knowledge to guide you through that.
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