encrypting /home partition post-install

Roberto Ragusa mail at robertoragusa.it
Mon Nov 30 11:44:23 UTC 2015


On 11/29/2015 10:19 PM, 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 would expect that, with most use cases, people install Fedora with the default filesystem layout, and never have the need to move or grow their existing partitions.

What overhead? You gain flexibility with nearly zero overhead.
This thread is about someone wanting to encrypt an existing
system: LVM makes it possible to do this, without a reboot,
without unmounting.

Regards.

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