Re: [tlug] [OT?]A Hard Drive Question

["Josh Glover" <jmglov@example.com>]

On 15/06/07, tlug@example.com <tlug@example.com> wrote:

> I have also experimented with partitioning USB drives to use more than one
> partition.  One idea was to make a small FAT32 partition as well as a second
> ext2 partition.  This could be useful in case you ever need to use it on a
> non-Linux machine but still want to have the benefits of a Linux fs.
> Alternately, the FAT32 partition could be used as a decoy, and Windows users
> would never know that a second, encrypted filesystem exists on the drive.  My
> partitioned drives worked perfectly on my (Gentoo) box, but unfortunately
> they had problems on other machines, so I gave up on that idea.

I use a similar technique; all of my USB mass storage-compatible media
has a tiny ext2 partition at the end, but instead of encrypting the
partition, I simply encrypt the files within. So on any machine where
I have access to my GPG private key, I am golden.

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Cheers,
Josh