I'm thinking about getting a new laptop, and I'd like to try openSUSE (instead of Ubuntu, which I've been using for several years as my primary OS on pretty much everything). One of the things I would like to do is to have the filesystem (except for /boot) (unless that's possible, which seems unlikely) to be encrypted.
Ubuntu provides support for doing that by layering LVM on top of the encrypted partition. I've read a little on the SUSE wiki that there's support for encrypting the file system at installation time, but it's not really clear exactly how that works. What I don't want is a solution that would require me to provide a password separately for each partition that's mounted at boot time; seems like that would kind-of suck. Is this a possible/easy/hard thing to do with openSUSE (whatever the current release is)?
I'm an experienced Linux/UNIX user, so scary weird stuff about config files or partitioning procedures aren't a problem, but I'm not a system administrator so dealing with these things is something I only have to worry about rarely, when I'm setting up a new machine. Thus, I'm light on details, but I (mostly) understand the mechanics involved. All that is to say that I don't need a lovely friendly GUI with a giant "ENCRYPT" button in order to be happy with a solution :-)
I don't have the laptop yet and I haven't even downloaded an openSUSE Live CD, so I can't immediately try anything out.
