root encryption vs just /home encryption?

Chris Snook csnook at redhat.com
Tue Mar 25 17:37:02 UTC 2008


Louis E Garcia II wrote:
> 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?
> 
> -Thanks
> 

The Fedora 9 installer supports encrypting everything except /boot, and actually 
makes it quite easy.

-- Chris




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