[Discuss] Encrypt /home and allow unattended boot?

Dan Ritter dsr at randomstring.org
Fri Sep 27 12:16:01 EDT 2019


Daniel Barrett wrote: 
> On September 27, 2019, Dan Ritter wrote:
> >cryptmount is what you are looking for.
> 
> Wow, cryptmount is so easy to set up! Thank you so much, this is
> fantastic. I guess to make sure it's mounted when I log in, just put
> something like this in ~/.bashrc:
> 
>   mountpoint -q /home/me/crypto || cryptmount opaque
> 
> Do you know anything about the performance of large cryptmount
> filesystems?  Looks like a filesystem is stored in a single user disk
> file (~/crypto.fs), so it makes me wonder if it can handle (say)
> several terabytes without degrading. I did a quick google search for
> "cryptmount performance" but didn't see anything useful.

I've never used it for more than dozens of gigabytes, sorry.

-dsr-


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