Is there a way to encrypt my entire hard drive under Linux?
Tuesday, March 1st, 2011 at
00:26
I’m wondering whether there is a way to encrypt my entire drive so that nothing on the drive can be accessed without an encryption key upon booting? I’m looking for something that’s open source and runs under Linux. I have heard things about PGP, would that be able to do the job for me? The level of encryption has to be strong, preferably government level.
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Read up on LUKS (Linux Unified Key Setup)
I recommend combining it with LVM so you can unlock all your partitions with a single passphrase.
Here’s a howto:
http://slackware.oregonstate.edu/slackware-current/README_CRYPT.TXT
It’s for Slackware, but should be helpful for other distros
Ubuntu supports LVM and LUKS (but only with the alternate install CD)