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You want to protect this information from prying
eyes. Setting permissions and other access control tools is an important method of securing
these files, but some things need even more security. This is especially true with data
on laptops and removable hard drives.
Creating and Managing File Systems with Partitioner 381
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FIGURE 18.3 Expert Partitioner shows you the amount of space being used by your partition.
Use the slider or type in the size you want your new partition to be.
openSUSE Linux makes it possible, and relatively easy, to set up an area where files are
encrypted within that space. You can set off an entire partition or create an encrypted file
system within single files.
You have the option of creating encrypted partitions during the installation process, but
you can also do this within EP.
CAUTION
Don??™t use EP to encrypt a running file system! Adding encryption will destroy any data
on a running partition. Always resize another partition and then create a new,
encrypted partition with the process outlined in this section.


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