Encrypt your home folder after installation

Pierre Abbat phma at leaf.dragonflybsd.org
Sun Oct 15 21:33:47 PDT 2017


On Sunday, October 15, 2017 1:05:50 AM EDT Olle Harstedt wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> Thanks for your excellent reply.
> 
> OK, I just accepted the default partition settings during
> installation, and it seems it did not create a home folder, so I guess
> I'm screwed unless I can shrink the root partition without formating
> it. Possible? Otherwise, a reinstallation might be my best option
> here. (Except that I physically have to move the hard-drive since dfly
> won't read USB on the X220 laptop ><)

As far as I can tell, this is not possible. Can you add another hard disk?

> A related question: Is it possible to encrypt a HAMMER PFS?

You mean filesystem encryption (as opposed to block encryption, which is what 
cryptsetup does)? I don't see anything about it in the man page.

Pierre
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