Re: encrypting /home partition post-install

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On Mon, 2015-11-30 at 06:59 -0500, Sam Varshavchik wrote:
> > It's an issue that raises its head sporadically and has done for
> > several years. I'm also in the No camp and take care to disable LVM
> on
> > any new install, but I can't see the situation changing unless or
> until
> > something functionally equivalent comes along (BRTFS?). In the
> > meantime, we sigh and move on.
> 
> No, the whole point is that "functionally equivalent" still doesn't
> bring  
> anything value-added to the table.

It does if a) there is no overhead (which is being claimed for LVM) and
b) it doesn't burden the user, which LVM does even if you never do
anything with it. The burden being a cognitive one: that you have to
know it's there and understand how to interpret disk partitions.

poc
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