DaemonForums  

Go Back   DaemonForums > FreeBSD > FreeBSD Installation and Upgrading

FreeBSD Installation and Upgrading Installing and upgrading FreeBSD.

Reply
 
Thread Tools Display Modes
  #1   (View Single Post)  
Old 31st May 2008
ViperChief ViperChief is offline
Port Guard
 
Join Date: May 2008
Posts: 15
Default Encrypting hard drive?

I'm getting ready to install FreeBSD 7 on a laptop and am looking into encrypting the drive. I've seen several different sites regarding this. I wanted to see if I could see what ya'll think. When it comes to encrypting my disk, what is the best course of action? Should I encrypt the whole disk before I install or should I only encrypt partitions, etc? Thanks in advance.
Reply With Quote
  #2   (View Single Post)  
Old 31st May 2008
mfaridi's Avatar
mfaridi mfaridi is offline
Spam Deminer
 
Join Date: May 2008
Location: Afghanistan
Posts: 320
Default

Use this link

http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO...ncrypting.html

and this link

http://www.violetlan.net/bsd/25/Disk...hgelionFreeBSD
Reply With Quote
  #3   (View Single Post)  
Old 31st May 2008
ViperChief ViperChief is offline
Port Guard
 
Join Date: May 2008
Posts: 15
Default

Thank you. I had seen the first link but not the second. Is it better to just make part of the hard drive encrypted rather than the whole drive? Would making /home encrypted work well? Both links seem to be just about making a whole new partition and the first even says that encrypting /home would require more complex instructions. I don't do real "secret" stuff, but with identity theft on the rise, among other things, I'd like to protect as much of my info as I can.
Reply With Quote
  #4   (View Single Post)  
Old 31st May 2008
Nightweaver's Avatar
Nightweaver Nightweaver is offline
Fdisk Soldier
 
Join Date: May 2008
Location: Belgrade, Serbia
Posts: 47
Default

I use Geli for encrypting one of my hdd slices. You may encrypt your /home partition without any problems. I always use different slice for /home and encrypt it before I start using it. That partition may be activated and mounted through rc.conf thus no problems with logging and using your /home files at all.
Reply With Quote
  #5   (View Single Post)  
Old 31st May 2008
ViperChief ViperChief is offline
Port Guard
 
Join Date: May 2008
Posts: 15
Default

I found something about encrypting /home. What I'm planning to do is install then before I do anything else, on the first boot, I'll follow the steps to encrypt /home then create my user account. Does that sound like a good plan of attack? I am planning on using geli. From what I read, it seemed that it was better. I saw some benchmarks and it looked like it was faster than gbde.
Reply With Quote
  #6   (View Single Post)  
Old 31st May 2008
Nightweaver's Avatar
Nightweaver Nightweaver is offline
Fdisk Soldier
 
Join Date: May 2008
Location: Belgrade, Serbia
Posts: 47
Default

The plan sounds just fine. Creating and using geli is pretty easy. You generate the key, create new partition, encrypt it, set it's mount point and that's it. Just remember to add the appropriate lines to /etc/rc.conf after you're done. And add your geli partition to /etc/fstab so it gets mounted at boot.
Reply With Quote
Reply

Thread Tools
Display Modes

Posting Rules
You may not post new threads
You may not post replies
You may not post attachments
You may not edit your posts

BB code is On
Smilies are On
[IMG] code is On
HTML code is Off

Forum Jump

Similar Threads
Thread Thread Starter Forum Replies Last Post
AMD64 - Hard Drive Partitioning Turquoise88 General software and network 8 11th September 2009 05:58 AM
Formatting Hard Disk Drive to UFS in OS X 10.5 Turquoise88 Other BSD and UNIX/UNIX-like 1 7th March 2009 09:57 PM
Did I fry my hard drive? JMJ_coder General Hardware 7 23rd December 2008 10:38 PM
CF as a *BSD hard drive? JMJ_coder General Hardware 26 31st July 2008 05:13 PM
FreeBSD 7.0 hard drive problems. Errinok FreeBSD Installation and Upgrading 8 13th June 2008 03:24 PM


All times are GMT. The time now is 08:24 AM.


Powered by vBulletin® Version 3.8.4
Copyright ©2000 - 2024, Jelsoft Enterprises Ltd.
Content copyright © 2007-2010, the authors
Daemon image copyright ©1988, Marshall Kirk McKusick