[Preston] Loopback filesystems

[dave sawyer]

A single sheet how-to was handed out, I suppose John will be able to e-mail you
a copy.

Dave

Quoting stephen <lohapuk at xriz.com>:

> just wondering if any minutes work tacken or any files or docs where handed 
> out as i would to have a look, as i couldnt make it to the meet
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: dave sawyer <dave.sawyer at dsl.pipex.com>
> To: preston at mailman.lug.org.uk
> Date: Thu,  2 Sep 2004 12:50:20 +0100
> Subject: [Preston] Loopback filesystems
> 
> > After the meeting last night, i'm having a play with the encrypted
> > loopback 
> > filesystems that John was talking about.
> > 
> > I can get it to do everything except encrypting the data. (slight
> > drawback?)
> > 
> > Although the losetup command gives me several crypto options, I can't
> > get it 
> > to actually accept a password and encrypt the data.
> > 
> > Any ideas?  I think there may possibly be a kernel module missing but
> > as a 
> > thickie, don't know exactly how to check - tried modprobe -c (think it
> > was) 
> > which lists the modules installed, but this shows encryption modules
> > are 
> > already loaded.
> > 
> > Dave.
> > -- 
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