Re: Late encryption of /home Partition

[Hans <hans.ullrich@loop.de>]

Hi all,

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

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.

Then you can encrypt and format this partion and rsync everything back.

Doing so, I never lost data or settings.

Hope this helps.

Best regards

Hans