• ftbd@feddit.org
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    1 day ago

    But I think ‘encrypt home directory’ only encrypts your home partition, not your root partition. Not sure why many distros offer only this option in the graphical installer

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      17 hours ago

      encrypt your home directory stated as such doesn’t mean encrypt ANY partition. Distros that offer this normally use ecryptfs. encrypting your partition uses LUKS. They use ecryptfs because its easy and doesn’t effect the boot up process. Full disk (or partition) uses LUKS