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Top Forums UNIX for Advanced & Expert Users encrypting file system using AES 256 bit Post 89652 by Neo on Monday 14th of November 2005 06:25:54 PM
Old 11-14-2005
I do not recommend you encrypt a filesystem. People who do this find that when they have a system crash, they have a very difficult time to recover.

In the rare instances I have used an encrypted file system, each time eventually resulted in need to wipe out the entire disk, due to system or user errors.
 

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