root encryption vs just /home encryption?

Bill Nottingham notting at redhat.com
Mon Mar 24 17:26:47 UTC 2008


Louis E Garcia II (louisg00 at bellsouth.net) said: 
> Why would you encrypt the whole disk? /home is where your data is the
> rest is just a regular fedora installation? Is SWAP important to?

Some people may do it because they have a laptop or similar single-disk
system where it's not worth the effort to do a lot of custom partitioning.

Bill




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