Re: LUKS question
Allegedly, on or about 12 December 2017, Robert Nichols sent:
You can do that with cryptsetup-reencrypt, but it needs to be able
to
make space for the ~2MB LUKS header ahead of the filesystem in the
partition. That's a fairly risky operation -- shrinking the
filesystem slightly and shifting it over. An alternative is LUKS with
a detached header, but maintaining that relationship is an
administrative headache with a severe penalty for error.
If they had the spare drive space, I'd suggest shrink the existing
partition in half. Make a new encrypted one in that new space. Copy
the files over. Erase the previous partition, and either keep it for
the next lot of jiggery-pokery, or expand your new one into the space.
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