[colug-432] Mounting plaintext FS under encrypted fs

Rob Haag rhaag71 at gmail.com
Wed Jan 26 00:48:14 EST 2011


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
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> >>>   FS under an encrypted one? Suppose /home/josh is on its own encrypted
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> >>>   Can I then mount another non-encrypted partition under
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