On Tue, Feb 25, 2014 at 15:50:55 +0100, "Pal, Laszlo" <vlad@xxxxxxx> wrote:
Hi All, For the last few days I'm trying to find a way to encrypt at least my home directory (preferably everything except boot) without re-install Fedora. Unfortunately google does not help in this case... Someone suggested to use encrypt-fs but I'm not sure this is the best way to achieve this Do you have any quick and preferably painless idea?
Is /home on a separate partition? If so, you can use dmcrypt/luks to encrypt a file system on that partition. But I don't think there is an easy way to do this after an install. You'll need to run some low level commands to set up the encrypted file system and you'll need to edit some config files. I've done this, but I don't remember the exact steps to do it and usually need to do a bit of futzing around to get it working. You also need to have room to move /home's contents somewhere while you are making the change.
A backup, reinstall and restore would likely be easier. You can encrypt / at the same time if you go that route. (/boot can't be encrypted currenty, though it looks like grub2 is has luks support now (at least upstream).)
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