[CentOS-docs] potential wiki on encryption

Thu Aug 28 14:03:05 UTC 2008
Ralph Angenendt <ra+centos at br-online.de>

Chris * wrote:
> Hello all,

Hello Chris!

> I have a couple of questions about the process of creating a wiki.
> 
> 1.  How does the peer-review process work?

You publish it on the wiki and we flame you after that >:)

No, you can publish it here while we all look over it or you can begin
editing on the wiki and people who are interested in it can review it
while you write.

> 2.  Is there a place to place an article being reviewed that can be
> modified while being reviewed but not necessarily available to the
> public?

You can edit it without it being linked from somewhere. But a search on
the wiki will still find unlinked articles.

> The reason that I ask the second question is because the posting in
> the forum is literally my first draft as I was going through the
> process.  I have found a couple of modifications that need to be made.
> The changes that I know should be made are:
> 
> 1.  The optional step of adding exclude=mkinitrd to /etc/yum.conf
> should be "exclude=mkinitrd nash" 2.  I switched up my disk device on
> some instructions to /dev/hda which should be /dev/sda for
> consistency.  3.  I think that the last 2 steps of extending the
> encrypted partition to the entire disk could be clearer.

One question: How would your article differ from 

<http://wiki.centos.org/TipsAndTricks/EncryptedFilesystem>?

I haven't read your forum post, yet.

Cheers,

Ralph
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