encrypted drives

[Kenyon Ralph]

On 3/22/06, Erik Norgaard <norgaard at locolomo.org> wrote:
> 2) One thing is to create an entire encrypted device for /home. But that
> have the unfortunate consequence that other user's data is unencrypted
> once the system is up.
>
> What would be more appropriate is a solution where each home-dir is an
> encrypted mfs which is decrypted and mounted when the user log in, is
> this possible?

I think this is exactly what Mac OS X does with its FileVault feature.