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Anybody know a guide or reading material on learning how to encrypt hard drives ?

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[-] amanneedsamaid@sopuli.xyz 5 points 1 year ago

Last I checked, Mint only allows you to encrypt your home partition. I know that Fedora supports full disk encryption via a toggle at installation.

[-] wildbus8979@sh.itjust.works 3 points 1 year ago

Mint only allows you to encrypt your home partition.

Lol WTF? Cryptsetup has been a thing for what? Twenty years?

[-] EddyBot@feddit.de 2 points 1 year ago

encrypting /home is good if you have multiple users also eCryptfs is also thing for several years just like LUKS/dm-crypt

[-] wildbus8979@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

/home encryption can be useful, but the fact that the installer does not offer FDE is laughable.

Also don't use ecryptfs, it sucks.

[-] drunkensailor@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

yeah, i love mint but have felt like its installer is severley lacking for a long time when it come to maore advance d stuff liek FDE, BTRFS, alternate bootloaders like suystemd-boot etc

Also don’t use ecryptfs, it sucks.

no clue there. i use luks on feodora and seem liek it works pretyy good.

[-] wildbus8979@sh.itjust.works 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

no clue there. i use luks on feodora and seem liek it works pretyy good.

Luks is fantastic. Ecryptfs not so much.

[-] drunkensailor@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

i think endeavour lets yuo do FDE from the gui installer also but yeah fedora is fucking great

[-] neutron@thelemmy.club 2 points 1 year ago

Perhaps you had another partition with an operating system on the same disk, which prevented full disk encryption? If installing on an empty disk, most distros offer full disk encryption by default.

[-] amanneedsamaid@sopuli.xyz 2 points 1 year ago

That definitely wasnt the case when I was last installing Mint, as I don't dual boot and always select the option to overrite the entire disk during installation. The way I remember it, it says "[checkbox] Encrypt your home partition" with no other options. Not sure if there is an equivalent to Fedora's settings or an advanced mode (like blivet-gui) to setup full disk encryption manually.