[MLUG] Ubuntu encrypted private folder

[Jeremy]

Nick Nobody wrote:
> On Fri, 2008-12-12 at 11:05 -0500, Andre Courchesne - Consultant wrote:
>   
>> "Filenames and directory names will not be encrypted"
>>
>> Now that's a show stopper for me...
>>
>>     
>
> Fedora offers full drive encryption, I've been using it for 6-7 months
> now without any problems. I'm not sure what happens if something becomes
> corrupted but I can't imagine that the whole partition will become
> unusable.
>
> nick
Yup alot of distros offer this in the installer now... one thing to note
is you will take a performance hit for using it, may not be much, but on
slower systems I have seen disk writes take the majority of cpu share
while writing.

Jeremy