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

  • @[email protected]
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    511 months ago

    Probably not what you’re looking for but Linux Mint has the option to encrypt your drive when you first install it. It’s as easy as clicking “yes” and setting a password.

    • @[email protected]
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      511 months 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.

      • @wildbus8979
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        411 months ago

        Mint only allows you to encrypt your home partition.

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

        • @[email protected]
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          211 months ago

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

          • @wildbus8979
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            11 months 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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              11 months ago

              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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                11 months ago

                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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        11 months ago

        i think endeavour lets yuo do FDE from the gui installer also but yeah fedora is fucking great

      • @[email protected]
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        211 months 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.

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          211 months ago

          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.

          • @[email protected]
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            311 months ago

            when you choose the partitions you want, there is a little checkbox asking you if you want to encrypt your hard drive