Problems with home server

[Technomage]

um ouch, I missed this part! that's going to complicate matters 
enormously. if you can tar stuff off onto an external USB/firewire 
drive, I'd highly recommend that you do it now!

otherwise, your problems will multiply harshly. once done, 
wipe/reinstall and place your backed up data in place.

and yeah, whole disc encryption is really unnecessary unless you happen 
to be working for a government agency or some private firm that insists 
on "total security"I tend to encrypt /home and the swap partitions here. 
its not much of a performance hit and my data is "reasonably safe".

On 7/26/10 12:01 PM, Matt Graham wrote:
> From: "Bryan O'Neal"<Bryan.ONeal at TheONealAndAssociates.com>
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>> And yes the drive is encrypted using the red hat / fedora standard
>> encryption.
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> When whole-disk encryption goes wrong, it's a total PITA to fix AFAICT.  I'd
> put the really sensitive data somewhere like /home or /data , and just encrypt
> that partition or LV.  That way, when it all goes pear-shaped, you have a
> better chance of the stuff in /, /usr, and so forth still being usable.  But I
> don't need "complete paranoiac"-level security for most of my stuff....
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