Re: [Sheflug] USB Hard disks and off site storage file security

[Jens Thomas <j.m.h.thomas [at] xxxxxxxx>]

Hi

I don't really know anything about this, as I only stumbled on this 
whilst looking into loopback devices when I was trying to make my a boot 
disk. However you might find:

http://www.tldp.org/HOWTO/Loopback-Encrypted-Filesystem-HOWTO.html

useful.

Jens

Chris Johnson wrote:

> Is it possible to create a filesystem that needs a password to view the
> files on it/to mount it so that if the disk was lost or stolen  the data
> wouldn't be open to anyone who plugged the drive in to any PC?
>
> Chris Johnson
> (No not that one, the other one!)
> (running SUSE 9, 512MB PIII 600 (ish))
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