Hans Fernhout's Blog

A quick guide on how to encrypt a complete Gentoo Linux system. By now I have encrypted all my laptops and my little home server. This blog is just a reminder on how to do it, from A to Z. Perhaps it is beneficial for others too.

Sometimes I get struck by a sense of security consiousness. This time I realized I have all my content on simple btrfs formatted disks, without any encryption. That's not very secure, is it?

Of course I hope I never need a backup, but just in case...

I have a little home server that I use to store media, email, as a NAS, and as backup storage device. One of the disks was getting quite full, so I decided to add a disk in RAID-0 mode (striped). Luckily this disk was formatted with btrfs, which supports various multiple disk architectures.