Hi Perry, since reencryption is a high-risk operation, you should just go via your regular backup+restore procedure. You have one, right? Regards, Arno On Thu, Aug 03, 2017 at 06:17:46 CEST, Perry Thompson wrote: > Hello there, > > I had a quick question about the possibility of getting additional > features added to cryptsetup-reencrypt. This may be asking for too much > and I might be better off getting a second drive, putting LUKS on it, > and transferring my files to it instead, but I thought I would ask > anyways. > > I have a drive with LUKS set up on it. The LUKS header is on a USB > drive, and my data has an offset of 4096 512-byte sectors. > > I was looking to encrypt a non-encrypted drive that I have on another > machine. I was thinking of using cryptsetup-reencrypt, however because > I have a detached header and an offset for the data, the current > cryptsetup-reencrypt wouldn't work for me. > > Would maybe adding --align-payload and --header options be something > that might be possible? Even having a way to have it put the header at > the start of the disk and use up those "free" 2MiB where my GPT stuff > is, I could then manually extract the header and then overwrite it > later. > > I was just curious on thoughts about adding such options to the > program, although now that I'm typing all of this out, I'm thinking > that getting a second drive and copying the data to a freshly-encrypted > drive might save me a lot of hassle. > > Thank you for taking the time to read this. > > _______________________________________________ > dm-crypt mailing list > dm-crypt@xxxxxxxx > http://www.saout.de/mailman/listinfo/dm-crypt -- Arno Wagner, Dr. sc. techn., Dipl. Inform., Email: arno@xxxxxxxxxxx GnuPG: ID: CB5D9718 FP: 12D6 C03B 1B30 33BB 13CF B774 E35C 5FA1 CB5D 9718 ---- A good decision is based on knowledge and not on numbers. -- Plato If it's in the news, don't worry about it. The very definition of "news" is "something that hardly ever happens." -- Bruce Schneier _______________________________________________ dm-crypt mailing list dm-crypt@xxxxxxxx http://www.saout.de/mailman/listinfo/dm-crypt
