best solution for encrypting a mountpoint?

[Erich Dollansky]

Hi,

On Sun, 31 Aug 2014 11:39:52 -0400
"Littlefield, Tyler" <tyler at tysdomain.com> wrote:

> Hello all:
> I would like to encrypt my /home directory. Is there a good solution
> for handling this? There is already a partition, so I'd like to
> unmount it and somehow set it up so that it will be encrypted.
> Thanks,
> 
as others have already suggested, I also use GELI for this purpose. To
increase security a bit, you can store a key on a removable media. This
would mean that you need this media to be able to access the data. The
passphrase alone will not help.

Erich