From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Fri May 21 08:49:23 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 135F816A4CE for ; Fri, 21 May 2004 08:49:23 -0700 (PDT) Received: from smtp06.web.de (smtp06.web.de [217.72.192.224]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D187843D1D for ; Fri, 21 May 2004 08:49:22 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from platanthera@web.de) Received: from [217.225.243.123] (helo=liza.hacienda.herti) by smtp06.web.de with asmtp (TLSv1:RC4-MD5:128) (WEB.DE 4.101 #91) id 1BRCGv-0001Eo-00 for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Fri, 21 May 2004 17:49:22 +0200 From: platanthera To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Date: Fri, 21 May 2004 17:49:15 +0200 User-Agent: KMail/1.6.2 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <200405211749.15890.platanthera@web.de> Sender: platanthera@web.de Subject: home on a gbde encrypted partion X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 21 May 2004 15:49:23 -0000 hi all, I want to move my home directory to a gbde encrypted partition. I plan to have only the default dotfiles in /home/xxx (before mounting the encrypted partition), log in as usual, attach and fsck the encrypted partion and then mount it 'over' /home/xxx. Is there anything wrong with this approach? Or is there a more elegant way? thanks in advance