That would not give me what I want. This because the machine should still be functional with correct permisttions etc. I have confidential information that my customer owns, and due to my customers policy I cannot take out the working machine from their premises unless I encrypt everything that has to do with the work I am doing for them. Best regards, Peter Lauri www.dwsasia.com - company web site www.lauri.se - personal web site www.carbonfree.org.uk - become Carbon Free -----Original Message----- From: fedora-list-bounces@xxxxxxxxxx [mailto:fedora-list-bounces@xxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of linuxmaillists@xxxxxxxxxxx Sent: Tuesday, February 27, 2007 12:48 AM To: For users of Fedora Subject: Re: Encrypt parts of drive? On Monday 26 February 2007, Peter Lauri wrote: > Is there anyway to encrypt parts of a drive? For example: > I need to encrypt a specific home directory > /home/confidentialuser/ but not the rest of the drive, is > that possible? Have you looked at permissions yet? setting the file permissions like this chmod 700 will make the file available only to the owner and no one else -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list