Re: geli on exisitng laptop

2009-04-08 Thread Roland Smith
On Wed, Apr 08, 2009 at 10:48:31AM -0700, new_guy wrote: > > > Roland Smith wrote: > > > > My advice would be to put /home (where _your_ data resides) on a > > seperate partition and encrypt only that partition, with a password. > > Thanks to everyone for the advice. I really do appreciate it.

Re: geli on exisitng laptop

2009-04-08 Thread new_guy
Roland Smith wrote: > > My advice would be to put /home (where _your_ data resides) on a > seperate partition and encrypt only that partition, with a password. > Thanks to everyone for the advice. I really do appreciate it. I like this tip a lot. Since the default FreeBSD installer puts /home

Re: geli on exisitng laptop

2009-04-08 Thread Roland Smith
On Wed, Apr 08, 2009 at 07:06:27AM -0700, new_guy wrote: > > Hi guys, > > I'd like to use geli to whole disk encrypt a FreeBSD 7.1 laptop I already > have setup. The laptop is up and working fine and I don't want to screw it > up. It have the default partition layout. I've already used geli to en

Re: geli on exisitng laptop

2009-04-08 Thread Matthew Seaman
new_guy wrote: Hi guys, I'd like to use geli to whole disk encrypt a FreeBSD 7.1 laptop I already have setup. The laptop is up and working fine and I don't want to screw it up. It have the default partition layout. I've already used geli to encrypt the swap partition. The default partitioning

Re: geli on exisitng laptop

2009-04-08 Thread Geoff Fritz
On Wed, Apr 08, 2009 at 07:06:27AM -0700, new_guy wrote: > > Hi guys, > > I'd like to use geli to whole disk encrypt a FreeBSD 7.1 laptop I already > have setup. The laptop is up and working fine and I don't want to screw it > up. It have the default partition layout. I've already used geli to en