encrypting /home partition post-install

[Sam Varshavchik]

Heinz Diehl writes:

> Automatically introducing complexity into 95% of the users systems just  
> because it could
> be useful some day is, quite frankly, embarassing. It makes sense the
> other way 'round: complexity adds to the diffculties when
> having to handle data operations (backup, encryption, transfer,
> recovery..) , which in turn makes data loss more likely.

Precisely.

Such as during the grub -> grub2 transition, when a larger spare chunk of  
space was needed, after the MBR, to accomodate the larger bootloader.

Two of my servers did not have sufficient space for grub2. But both of them  
were formatted as raw, RAID-1 volumes. This made it possible to use a  
combination of resize2fs+fdisk to repartition "in-place", in order to give  
more spare room to the MBR.

But if I had to deal with useless LVM interloper, I would've been, pretty  
much, up the creek.

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