In order to give my trusted T42 a slight speed up I decided to replace the built-in 5400rpm hdd with something faster. I decided to go with Seagate’s ST910021A which seems to be a great choice from what I can tell so far - it’s noticeably faster and despite it’s 7200 rpm it’s nearly as quiet as the original 80GB disk from Hitachi.
But I digress. Initially I just wanted to copy over all the stuff and be done with it, but then I took the chance to do a fresh install of Ubuntu so I could try out the hard disk encryption setup that has been introduced in the alternate installer of 7.10. Until then I only had an encrypted /home, which was pretty useless since most of the time my notebook isn’t shut down but hibernated, and I never needed to type in my passphrase upon resume…
