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Why call it full-disk encryption when the EFI partition has to be unencrypted? (programming.dev)

submitted 1 day ago by onlinepersona@programming.dev to c/linux@programming.dev

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Sounds like a misnomer to me.

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[–] owenfromcanada@lemmy.ca 18 points 1 day ago (1 children)

To add to the other comments: it's "full-disk" to distinguish it from "per-file" encryption. And "full-partition" didn't catch on, probably because functionally an unencrypted boot partition makes little practical difference.

[–] higgsboson@piefed.social 3 points 1 day ago

And also because "disk" is already too hard for most people. "Partition" would be way way too complicated a concept for most users.