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To: tyler@tysdomain.com
Subject: Re: best solution for encrypting a mountpoint?
From: "Julian H. Stacey" <jhs@berklix.com>
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Hi, Reference:
> From:		"Littlefield, Tyler" <tyler@tysdomain.com>
> Reply-to:	tyler@tysdomain.com
> Date:		Sun, 31 Aug 2014 11:39:52 -0400

"Littlefield, Tyler" wrote:
> Hello all:
> I would like to encrypt my /home directory. Is there a good solution for 
> handling this? There is already a partition, so I'd like to unmount it 
> and somehow set it up so that it will be encrypted.
> Thanks,

FreeBSD supports 2 encrypting file systems, I happen to use gbde, try man gbde

How I use gbde to encrypt mount my /home
	 http://berklix.com/~jhs/bin/.sh/gbde2.sh

Cheers,
Julian
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