Protecting filesystems and swap space with Cryptmount
Posted by: Anonymous
[ip: 69.31.47.221]
on March 06, 2008 10:28 PM
The man page isn't exactly clear on the exact steps you need to create an encrypted partition from start to finish. Wish you would have included the same info, with complete, step by step commands and flags for a partition as well as a file.
The same with the swapfile. Setting up a swap file is helpful as I have idle swapfiles I created when I was running out of memory and needed more swap space before the system went down, but the same, step by step, command by command, flag by flag info for creating (and mounting, and using after bootup) a swap partition would've been great.
From what I'm getting from your article, I can't have an encrypted partition automatically mount on bootup (or even begin the mounting process and request a password during bootup, if a password is needed. From my understanding, unless I remember and manually mount an encrypted swap partition (similar to mounting my spare swap files sitting in / right now) after bootup, I'm out of luck.
This is one of the very few applications that cries out for a gui. It's a pain in the balls without it, and Cryptmount has been sitting on my laptop for several months because I gave up on its complexity from when I first installed it.
And without a deb file for Etch, or working source code that doesn't choke on AMD64x2 (or a bug/contact for that doesn't through a session error), Truecrypt is useless as well.
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Protecting filesystems and swap space with Cryptmount
Posted by: Anonymous [ip: 69.31.47.221] on March 06, 2008 10:28 PMThe same with the swapfile. Setting up a swap file is helpful as I have idle swapfiles I created when I was running out of memory and needed more swap space before the system went down, but the same, step by step, command by command, flag by flag info for creating (and mounting, and using after bootup) a swap partition would've been great.
From what I'm getting from your article, I can't have an encrypted partition automatically mount on bootup (or even begin the mounting process and request a password during bootup, if a password is needed. From my understanding, unless I remember and manually mount an encrypted swap partition (similar to mounting my spare swap files sitting in / right now) after bootup, I'm out of luck.
This is one of the very few applications that cries out for a gui. It's a pain in the balls without it, and Cryptmount has been sitting on my laptop for several months because I gave up on its complexity from when I first installed it.
And without a deb file for Etch, or working source code that doesn't choke on AMD64x2 (or a bug/contact for that doesn't through a session error), Truecrypt is useless as well.
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