encrypting /home partition post-install

Gordon Messmer gordon.messmer at gmail.com
Mon Nov 30 01:08:25 UTC 2015


On 11/29/2015 04:22 PM, Ranjan Maitra wrote:
> I do have backups in place, but I don't really want to have to go
> back to them (one of the partitions has 367 GB of data, the other has
> 100 GB). At the least, it will be disruptive.

Disruption is unavoidable.  The tool I described earlier might be able 
to encrypt in place, but it has to be done offline.  I don't know how 
near your backups are, but it would probably take me longer to 
encrypt-in-place than to install and restore.


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