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Re: Late encryption of /home Partition

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On Thu, 18 Nov 2021 18:17:43 +0100
Hans <hans.ullrich@loop.de> wrote:

> as far as I know, you also have to edit /etc/crypttab.

Correct. Sorry, I forget that. "man crypttab".

Do this before you run update-grub.


> 
> If one has forgotten to encrypt a partition, the easiest way is, to
> boot from a livefile system. Then backup the whole content of this
> partition to an external partition. Note, this should be a ext3 or
> ext4 partition, so you preserve all hard- and softlinks.
> 
> I suggest for using rsync doing this.

I find tar easier to use for this, but rsync will do it, as you say,
provided one has an ext[34] partition to copy to.

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Late encryption of /home Partition Klaus Singvogel <deb-user-ml@singvogel.net> - 2021-11-18 14:50 +0100
  Re: Late encryption of /home Partition Charles Curley <charlescurley@charlescurley.com> - 2021-11-18 18:00 +0100
    Re: Late encryption of /home Partition Hans <hans.ullrich@loop.de> - 2021-11-18 18:20 +0100
      Re: Late encryption of /home Partition Charles Curley <charlescurley@charlescurley.com> - 2021-11-18 20:10 +0100
        Re: Late encryption of /home Partition Klaus Singvogel <deb-user-ml@singvogel.net> - 2021-11-18 23:00 +0100

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