[colug-432] Mounting plaintext FS under encrypted fs

[Rob Haag]

Yeah, actually that does make sense; Sometimes it's easy to complicate a
simple idea :)

On Tue, Jan 25, 2011 at 6:55 PM, Scott McCarty <scott.mccarty at gmail.com>wrote:

>
> On Jan 25, 2011 8:44 PM, "Rob Haag" <rhaag71 at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > My 'Split' plan was to just encrypted external media, of which most of
> are installed all the time. On a Netbook, maybe just encrypt a large SD card
> and keep your sensitive files in there...or divvy up your Netbook's HDD and
> use just one of the partitions as an encrypted storage. It would be
> interesting to know that if there is an un-encrypted partition under an
> encrypted partition...is it still piping through all the encryption stuff,
> or is it really being put out there as a normal partition? Also does the
> encrypted partition still have to be unlocked/accessed to get to the
> non-encrypted one, or is it showing up on it's own?
>
> It is just a mount point, so it is NOT encrypted and would simply have to
> be mounted somewhere else to get access to the data. Does that make sense?
> Unless you are talking about mounting a file as a filesystem, then it would
> be encrypted.
>
> Scott M
>
> >
> > Rob Haag
> >
> >
> > On Tue, Jan 25, 2011 at 10:29 AM, Scott McCarty <scott.mccarty at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> >>
> >> I just tested it on my LUKS partition and it works no problem.
> >>
> >> On Sun, Feb 8, 2004 at 10:05 AM, Joshua Kramer <josh at globalherald.net>
> wrote:
> >>>
> >>>
> >>> Hello,
> >>>
> >>> Does anyone know if it's possible to mount a non-encrypted FS under an
> encrypted one?
> >>>
> >>> Suppose /home/josh is on its own encrypted partition.  Can I then mount
> another non-encrypted partition under /home/josh/dev?
> >>>
> >>> I just got a new netbook and I'm attempting to find a good balance
> between encrypting my home directory and not incurring a CPU hit when I want
> to compile code?
> >>>
> >>> Allthough, the thought just occurred to me that maybe I can simply have
> a "development user" that I use to compile code... and dump all the large
> and high-bandwidth items under a /home/shared directory.  I think 2G of ram
> should be enough to have both users logged in at once.
> >>>
> >>> Thanks,
> >>> -Josh
> >>>
> >>> Spam detection software, running on the system "lists.colug.net", has
> >>> identified this incoming email as possible spam.  The original message
> >>> has been attached to this so you can view it (if it isn't spam) or
> label
> >>> similar future email.  If you have any questions, see
> >>> the administrator of that system for details.
> >>>
> >>> Content preview:  Hello, Does anyone know if it's possible to mount a
> non-encrypted
> >>>
> >>>   FS under an encrypted one? Suppose /home/josh is on its own encrypted
> partition.
> >>>   Can I then mount another non-encrypted partition under
> /home/josh/dev? [...]
> >>>
> >>>
> >>> Content analysis details:   (5.4 points, 5.0 required)
> >>>
> >>>  pts rule name              description
> >>> ---- ----------------------
> --------------------------------------------------
> >>>  1.2 DATE_IN_PAST_96_XX     Date: is 96 hours or more before Received:
> date
> >>>  2.5 BAYES_60               BODY: Bayes spam probability is 60 to 80%
> >>>                            [score: 0.7354]
> >>>  1.7 RDNS_DYNAMIC           Delivered to internal network by host with
> >>>                            dynamic-looking rDNS
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>
> >>> _______________________________________________
> >>> colug-432 mailing list
> >>> colug-432 at colug.net
> >>> http://lists.colug.net/mailman/listinfo/colug-432
> >>>
> >>> Spam detection software, running on the system "lists.colug.net", has
> >>> identified this incoming email as possible spam.  The original message
> >>> has been attached to this so you can view it (if it isn't spam) or
> label
> >>> similar future email.  If you have any questions, see
> >>> the administrator of that system for details.
> >>>
> >>> Content preview:  Hello, Does anyone know if it's possible to mount a
> non-encrypted
> >>>
> >>>   FS under an encrypted one? Suppose /home/josh is on its own encrypted
> partition.
> >>>   Can I then mount another non-encrypted partition under
> /home/josh/dev? [...]
> >>>
> >>>
> >>> Content analysis details:   (6.7 points, 5.0 required)
> >>>
> >>>  pts rule name              description
> >>> ---- ----------------------
> --------------------------------------------------
> >>>  3.8 BAYES_99               BODY: Bayes spam probability is 99 to 100%
> >>>                            [score: 0.9971]
> >>>  1.2 DATE_IN_PAST_96_XX     Date: is 96 hours or more before Received:
> date
> >>>  1.7 RDNS_DYNAMIC           Delivered to internal network by host with
> >>>                            dynamic-looking rDNS
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>
> >>
> >>
> >> _______________________________________________
> >> colug-432 mailing list
> >> colug-432 at colug.net
> >> http://lists.colug.net/mailman/listinfo/colug-432
> >>
> >
> >
> > _______________________________________________
> > colug-432 mailing list
> > colug-432 at colug.net
> > http://lists.colug.net/mailman/listinfo/colug-432
> >
>
> _______________________________________________
> colug-432 mailing list
> colug-432 at colug.net
> http://lists.colug.net/mailman/listinfo/colug-432
>
>
-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: http://lists.colug.net/pipermail/colug-432/attachments/20110125/dd38f10d/attachment.html