However, I wanted to try something different and achieve a few other things: I’m already doing backups (of part of my data) using rsync to my server at home - not full disk image, admittedly, which was JWZ’s prescription. JWZ, who obviously is a smart guy, is onto something. At the same time (I can do anything while simultaneously going through my subscriptions in Google Reader:) I happened upon the JWZ post about backups. Now, slowly approaching the main topic of this post, while playing around with the new disk and the old data I was thinking about putting in place a new backup strategy. Of course, with Hardy you can encrypt the root file system just by selecting to do so in the alternate installer, but I don’t feel a need to go that way right now - maybe later. That is, 30GB for root, 30GB to be encrypted, 135GB for data and the rest for swap. So, the 200GB disk ended up being partitioned like so:ĭisk /dev/sda: 200.0 GB, 200049647616 bytesĢ55 heads, 63 sectors/track, 24321 cylinders If you do, make sure to try - nay, use! - Truecrypt. I originally used Truecrypt on Linux with an NTFS file system to make the encrypted drive compatible with both Windows and Linux, but since then I’ve switched to an ext3 file system and don’t need the capability to mount it both under Linux and Windows. I also wanted to switch from the extremely useful and amazing Truecrypt to using Linux native LUKS encryption for my work and private data. This time around I decided to get rid of the Windows partition previously used for dual booting (haven’t booted into Windows in 6 months). Getting a new disk also makes the upgrade a lot less risky - I can keep the old disk as it is while setting up the new system. I used this as justification to get a new Hitachi SATA 200GB 7200RPM disk to replace the old 250GB 5200RPM in an effort to boost performance a little. Hardy Heron (KDE flavor) has been out for a while now and this weekend I finally decided to upgrade my (sweet sweet Dell M90) laptop from Gutsy.
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