Encrypt parts of drive?

[Todd Zullinger]

Peter Lauri wrote:
> First, sorry for bugging you guys with questions. I am rather new,
> and I hope I can contribute later on with more experience.

Promise? :)

> 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?

One way to do this is via fuse-encfs (yum install fuse-encfs).

See the examples in the man page.

There are other ways as well, using dm-crypt to create an encrypted
container.  It's been a while since I played with any of them, so
hopefully others can chime in with the pros and cons of various
methods.

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