Life on the bleeding edge

Lennart Sorensen lsorense-1wCw9BSqJbv44Nm34jS7GywD8/FfD2ys at public.gmane.org
Mon Oct 2 14:35:17 UTC 2006


On Sat, Sep 30, 2006 at 01:20:27PM -0400, Howard Gibson wrote:
>    I did not set up a /home partition on my laptop.  If someone steals it, I want to maximize the difficulties of getting it to do anything, much less provide access to all my files.  With a little luck, the Red Hat sticker will get the point across, ahead of time. 
> 
>    If the thief can get into the BIOS and make it boot from install media, they are going to have to blow away my root partition, and any personal information I chose to leave on it.  

Did you encrypt the filesystem?  If not, then they have no need to blow
away the root partition.  Heck they could just take the disk out, plug
it into a PC with a 2.5 to 3.5" adapter cable and mount the filesystem
and grab your files.  Same for windows.  If it's not encrypted, it is
free for the taking.

Having a seperate partition for /home would actually make it easier to
run an encrypted filesystem for your personal files, which on a laptop
might be a good idea.

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