encrypting /home partition post-install

Gordon Messmer gordon.messmer at gmail.com
Mon Nov 30 21:06:14 UTC 2015


On 11/30/2015 12:59 PM, Roberto Ragusa wrote:
> On 11/30/2015 08:44 PM, Gordon Messmer wrote:
>> As far as I'm aware, no it doesn't. 
> You can encrypt the system without even rebooting.
>
> Connect an external temporary USB disk (dev/sdb).
> Create a PV there (big enough for all your partitions).
...

Yes, you're correct.  You can add a PV to encrypt the system without 
rebooting.  You can't encrypt in place, and that's what I thought you 
meant.  My apologies.


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