Guide to installing a fully encrypted file system?

Posted by Michael Stum on Ask Ubuntu See other posts from Ask Ubuntu or by Michael Stum
Published on 2010-12-30T08:24:05Z Indexed on 2010/12/30 9:02 UTC
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I have a little Netbook on which I want to install Ubuntu 10.10 (32-Bit) on. However, since it is a portable PC I want to completely encrypt the file system (in case of theft).

Currently it runs Windows 7 Starter and I use TrueCrypt which installs a custom boot loader that asks for the password. I remember from the past that Linux can do that as well by putting /boot on it's own, unencrypted partition.

Since it's been ages since I last worked with file system encryption (I remember setting up LVM and a custom patched grub to ask for the password) I wonder how that would work nowadays and if there is a step-by-step how-to for it?

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