encrypting /home partition post-install

[Sam Varshavchik]

Ranjan Maitra writes:

> On Sun, 29 Nov 2015 20:29:09 -0800 Gordon Messmer <gordon.messmer at gmail.com>  
> wrote:
>
> > On 11/29/2015 05:59 PM, Ranjan Maitra wrote:
> > > Thanks! I was wondering about this some more. Can I not put this tool
> > > luksipc on a LiveCD and then compile and run it from there? Then the
> > > actual disks would be "offline", isn't that correct?
> >
> > Yes, but you don't really need to do that.  You just need to unmount the
> > filesystem you want to encrypt.
>
> But there is only one filesystem (/dev/sda) and one HDD on these two  
> laptops. Therefore, I am not sure how to do this other than through going in  
> through a LiveCD.

In this case, this is not possible. /boot cannot be encrypted. If you have  
one / partition, and /boot lives on it, it cannot be encrypted.


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