How safe is encrypted disks? (data integrity)

[Erik Norgaard]

Hi:

I have been thinking to make /home on my laptop encrypted - seems like a 
good idea if it gets stolen. Now, how safe is this? Not in terms of the 
strength of the encryption algorithm, but in terms of integrity.

What happens in case of power failure, the battery runs out or system 
crashes for whatever reason?

Normally this is not a big problem if it is temporary data anyway such 
as the Firefox cache, but I'd hate if this can take the entire disk down 
the drain...

Thanks, Erik
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