Re: encrypting /home partition post-install

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Ranjan Maitra writes:

On Sun, 29 Nov 2015 20:29:09 -0800 Gordon Messmer <gordon.messmer@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> On 11/29/2015 05:59 PM, Ranjan Maitra wrote:
> > Thanks! I was wondering about this some more. Can I not put this tool
> > luksipc on a LiveCD and then compile and run it from there? Then the
> > actual disks would be "offline", isn't that correct?
>
> Yes, but you don't really need to do that.  You just need to unmount the
> filesystem you want to encrypt.

But there is only one filesystem (/dev/sda) and one HDD on these two laptops. Therefore, I am not sure how to do this other than through going in through a LiveCD.

In this case, this is not possible. /boot cannot be encrypted. If you have one / partition, and /boot lives on it, it cannot be encrypted.


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