[CentOS] dmcrypt on install with centos 5.1?

Jim Perrin jperrin at gmail.com
Sun Feb 3 03:13:58 UTC 2008


On Feb 1, 2008 4:39 PM, Andrew Henry <adhenry at bredband.net> wrote:
> Im new to the list and CentOS and wonder if there is any option to do
> full disk encryption with dmcrypt and LUKS during the install stage of
> CentOS 5.1?  I use Debian Etch at the moment and Debian is able to to this.
>
> If not possible, are there any good guides that anyone knows about that
> explain how to dmcrypt everything but /boot on CentOS manually?


Full disk encryption is not currently possible, but there's a good
tutorial on the wiki for encrypting parts of the disk.

See -> http://wiki.centos.org/TipsAndTricks/EncryptedFilesystem



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