Aram Kananov

On my Fedora 7 Laptop i have separate logical volume for /home
To have it encrypted

• Backup /home
• Unmount /home

• format logical volume as LUKS partition with (replace <lvname> with name of you logical volume reserved for “home”): 

cryptsetup --verbose --verify-passphrase luksFormat  /dev/mapper/<lvname>

• You will be asked for password
• Create mapping between logial volume and luks partion

cryptsetup luksOpen /dev/mapper/<lvname> crypthome

• You will be asked for password
• create /etc/crypttab file with following contents (replace <lvname> with name of you logical volume reserved for “home”):

crypthome /dev/mapper/<lvname>

• format crypthome

mkfs.ext3 /dev/mapper/crypthome

• edit fstab and replace <lvname> with crypthome
• test if you can mount partition

mount /home

• reboot
• You should be asked during boot for LUKS password for cryphome partition