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can som eone please guide me for disk encryptionin kernel 2.6.14.3

what do you mean.

are you looking for a program in particular.

The new mechanism for encrypting disks uses the DeviceMapper , while the older used the cryptoloop. There are some advantages of using dm-crypt and cryptloop has security flaws.

http://www.google.com/search?q=dm-crypt+howto
=>
http://www.saout.de/tikiwiki/tiki-index.php?page=HOWTO
http://gentoo-wiki.com/SECURITY_dmcrypt

More general link:
http://www.infoanarchy.org/wiki/inde...isk_Encryption

But before using dm-crypt you should have a look at this:

http://www.linuxquestions.org/questi...75#post2053875

If you want to encrypt everything, there is a post in this forum, look at the last threads.
http://www.linuxquestions.org/questi...d.php?t=298500

Hafe fun

IMHO the best solution for disk encryption is dm-crypt with luks
http://luks.endorphin.org/dm-crypt

See there the advantages over other methods

ty guys will get back more...this disk encryption is sitting over me for more than a week now..

but i have to go a step ahead and encrypt the root partitionand burn this as an iso image