Encrypt parts of drive?

[Vivek J. Patankar]

Peter Lauri wrote:
> So if I forget to lock it and the computer is stolen then it is not
> encrypted? Is the lock/unlock part just for the system to be able to read
> from it?

If the laptop is shutdown, the encrypted filesystem is automatically 
unmounted. I have made it a habit to unmount it manually as I don't 
/shutdown/ my laptop, I hibernate it.

A howto by Todd Warner is a good resource to read before starting with 
fuse-encfs. It'll clear the basics.
http://www.dma.org/~tw/howtos/howto-fuse-encfs-the-web.html

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Vivek J. Patankar

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