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Tom wrote: |
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> As mentioned above, the disk I want encrypted is a usb device, so it's |
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> removable. |
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> This among other things requires the encryption method to be usable |
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> from multiple machines but also from multiple OSes (Windows and Linux). |
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> The main issue is obviously the filesystem. |
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> As far as I understand it, both methods work 'atop' any filesystem that |
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> the underlying OS supports. |
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> Because I want both windows and linux support, this would mean vfat, |
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> ntfs, or ext2(3,4??). |
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If you used TrueCrypt for this, it would not have to work on top of a |
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file system. It is possible to have TrueCrypt operate with an entire |
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partition and not an encrypted file system image sitting on top of (say) |
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a FAT32 file system. |
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In TrueCrypt v6.0a, you would do a Volumes -> Create new volume -> |
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Create a volume within a partition/device -> Standard TrueCrypt Volume |
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-> /dev/your_usb_drive_here and then format it with your file system of |
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choice (go ext2 if you're comfortable with using the Windows driver that |
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implements it; I'm not, but that's my damage). |
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> I have a working ext driver running in read-only mode under windows, |
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> but I wouldn't know how well it'll play when using encryption. |
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If it's read only and you want to back up data from your Windows install |
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as well, you're going to find that problematic. |
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> Another mayor question is dataloss. |
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> The usb-disc has 1TB, would it make sense to maybe have more than one |
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> partition, both from a performance and reliability standpoint? |
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You could do that if you wanted and use one partition for Windows stuff |
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and one partition for Linux stuff if you wanted to. My concern would be |
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how big a partition you'd need for Windows stuff and how big a partition |
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you'd need for Linux stuff. I don't think that it would be easy to |
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rework the partition scheme in case the amounts of data were different |
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from what you were expecting. |
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> Has anyone here a similar setup/usage of disc-encryption? |
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> Any thoughts on the matter? |
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What I wound up doing for one of my boxes was mounting the Windows |
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partition inside of my Gentoo install when it came time to back up, |
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backing it up under /mnt/backup_drive/windows when I ran my rdiff-backup |
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script, and unmounting everything at the end of it all. I eventually |
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gave up doing that and bought a separate drive for the Windows |
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partition, and encrypted all disk devices concerned with TrueCrypt. |
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