Gordon Messmer writes:
On 11/29/2015 12:25 PM, Ranjan Maitra wrote:Is it possible to encrypt a /home partition on F23 without losing the data? If so, what is the recommended method?Possible, yes. Supported? No. http://www.johannes-bauer.com/linux/luksipc/ If you trust the author, you might be able to convert a single filesystem in-place to LUKS. The result will not resemble the manner in which Anaconda (the Fedora installer) creates encrypted filesystems. Anaconda will, by default, encrypt a volume group.
That might be Anaconda's default behavior, but at least as of F23 Anaconda still lets you create raw+encrypted partitions. I just did that on a new laptop.
I really don't understand why Fedora is still foisting all the overhead of LVM on everyone, by default. I would tend to think that for typical use cases, LVM brings absolutely nothing value-added. I would expect that, with most use cases, people install Fedora with the default filesystem layout, and never have the need to move or grow their existing partitions.
In the few cases where someone might add another hard drive, an initial LVM- based format will certainly offer an option of growing the existing partitions to the new hard drive. But I wonder how often does that happen, versus how often LVM's overhead ends up getting competely wasted. And, after all, you can still create new partitions on the new hard drive and use them, without LVM.
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