Encrypt parts of drive?

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Mon Feb 26 22:48:17 UTC 2007


On Monday 26 February 2007, Peter Lauri wrote:

> Is there anyway to encrypt parts of a drive? For example:
> I need to encrypt a specific home directory
> /home/confidentialuser/ but not the rest of the drive, is
> that possible?

Have you looked at permissions yet?

setting the file permissions like this chmod 700 will make 
the file available only to the owner and no one else




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