encrypting /home partition post-install

Patrick O'Callaghan pocallaghan at gmail.com
Mon Nov 30 11:27:24 UTC 2015


On Mon, 2015-11-30 at 08:36 +0100, Heinz Diehl wrote:
> On 29.11.2015, Sam Varshavchik wrote: 
> 
> > I really don't understand why Fedora is still foisting all the
> > overhead of
> > LVM on everyone, by default. I would tend to think that for typical
> > use
> > cases, LVM brings absolutely nothing value-added.
> 
> I'd like to second that!
> 
> Mentioned the same issue here on this list several months ago when
> F22 came up..

It's an issue that raises its head sporadically and has done for
several years. I'm also in the No camp and take care to disable LVM on
any new install, but I can't see the situation changing unless or until
something functionally equivalent comes along (BRTFS?). In the
meantime, we sigh and move on.

poc


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