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Subject: Re: geli on exisitng laptop
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Roland Smith wrote:
> 
> My advice would be to put /home (where _your_ data resides) on a
> seperate partition and encrypt only that partition, with a password.
> 

Thanks to everyone for the advice. I really do appreciate it. I like this
tip a lot. Since the default FreeBSD installer puts /home as a link to
/usr/home... could I just encrypt /usr and get the same result? I'm thinking
this would be the best way.

Thanks again for the Great tips!

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