Re: encrypting /home partition post-install

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On Mon, 2015-11-30 at 15:58 +0100, Heinz Diehl wrote:
> On 30.11.2015, Roberto Ragusa wrote: 
> 
> > Seat belts are also useless for >99.9% of car passengers. :-) The
> > little inconvenience is accepted because
> > they may turn useful one day.
> 
> LVM can not possibly be life-threatening, in opposite to a non-used
> seatbelt, which is why your argument is bogus ;-)
> 
> Automatically introducing complexity into 95% of the users systems
> just because it could
> be useful some day is, quite frankly, embarassing. It makes sense the
> other way 'round: complexity adds to the diffculties when
> having to handle data operations (backup, encryption, transfer,
> recovery..) , which in turn makes data loss more likely.

A possible compromise would be to install LVM for the server version of
Fedora and not for the workstation version. Just a thought.

poc
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