"Chad Gross" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 12/14/06, Fabian Keil <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > Erik Norgaard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > I have been thinking to make /home on my laptop encrypted - seems like a > > > good idea if it gets stolen. Now, how safe is this? Not in terms of the > > > strength of the encryption algorithm, but in terms of integrity.
> > > What happens in case of power failure, the battery runs out or system > > > crashes for whatever reason? > > > > I have my home slice encrypted with GELI for several month now > > and so far I didn't notice any effects on the data integrity. > > > > I experienced several system crashes and one or two power failures > > do to empty battery but I didn't lose any data already saved > > on the disk (that I know of). > > > > The only inconvenience is that the system boots to single-user > > mode if the home slice isn't clean and I then have to fsck it > > manually. > > > > At that point the password for the key is already entered, > > so I'm not sure why the slice can't be fscked automatically. > > It could be the .eli extension, but I didn't investigate this > > any further. > Yes the manual fsck is a pain. I am not sure why it has to be done manually > either, but I don't think it is just the .eli extension. Did you notice you > have to specify that it is UFS as well? Yes, I forgot to mention it because I now always call fsck_ffs directly. I guess this could also explain why it has to be done manually. Fabian -- http://www.fabiankeil.de/
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