Jerry Franz wrote, On 05/03/2010 08:34 AM:
On 05/03/2010 04:50 AM, premrajm@digilink.in wrote:
Hi,
I would like to have a software protection for my hardisk. I have some query regarding that
(1) In Centos, is it possible to do a hardisk protection. Ex : Even if the hardisk is taken from a PC and used on another PC, it should not be executable.
(2) Also if the entire binary of the source is mounted on a partition say /tmp, is it possible to make that mount point as protected, visible only after entering a password or similar to that.
I would look at TrueCrypt.
Why go to TrueCrypt when LUKS is built in to CentOS? IIRC the only partition that can't be encrypted with LUKS is /boot, perhaps use TrueCrypt there if you KNOW they are out to get you. TrueCrypt is also useful if you need to share a partition with certain Non-Unix operating systems.
You do need to select the LUKS encryption when you do the CentOS install.