Is it still considered 'full disk' when its only used with a container file? I've never used TCs full-disk mode, but I've used it to quickly and easily create mountable disk images (even without encryption this would be handy). To my ear, 'full disk encryption' is something a hard drives firmware should be involved in.
Some folks call that "full disk encryption", but since there's a separate feature in TrueCrypt that calls itself "full disk encryption" and is actually encrypting the entire disk, to the point where TrueCrypt has to supply a boot loader to decrypt, it's probably reasonable to want to differentiate the two.
Thomas doesn't see the difference because it's all "block level" encryption, and apparently the only thing in the world that matters is crypto (rather than the presentation and adoption of crypto), but the difference is mainly in the boot loader aspect.
What are you talking about? It needs a boot loader if it encrypts the OS partition, which is orthogonal to whether it encrypts entire physical discs or not. That feature is not called "full disk" anywhere I can see. "System Encryption" or something.
