encrypting /home partition post-install

Sun Nov 29 20:54:43 UTC 2015

On 11/29/2015 12:25 PM, Ranjan Maitra wrote:
> Is it possible to encrypt a /home partition on F23 without losing the
> data? If so, what is the recommended method?

Possible, yes.  Supported?  No.

http://www.johannes-bauer.com/linux/luksipc/

If you trust the author, you might be able to convert a single
filesystem in-place to LUKS.  The result will not resemble the manner in
which Anaconda (the Fedora installer) creates encrypted filesystems.
Anaconda will, by default, encrypt a volume group.

The recommended process is to do a fresh install with encryption, and
then restore data from backup.