encrypting /home partition post-install

[Gordon Messmer]

On 11/30/2015 11:11 PM, Joe Zeff wrote:
> It's one more layer of abstraction to confuse newer users when things 
> go wrong. 

In the context of a conversation where LVM provides a means of 
addressing the OP's requirement (encrypting a system after-the-fact), 
and where I've outlined numerous concrete examples of LVM features that 
I think are useful on desktop systems (backups, SSD acceleration, and 
virtualization), do you see how "things might go wrong" isn't very 
convincing?  It's kind of vague and, honestly, applies to every aspect 
of computing.  Yes, things can go wrong. Software contains bugs.  
Simplicity is good.  But LVM is less complex than the vast majority of 
system components, and using a similar configuration on desktops and 
servers is, from the vendor's perspective, less complexity than 
different layouts.