Re: Late encryption of /home Partition

2021-11-18 Thread Klaus Singvogel
Hi, thanks for all your help. It's working now as expected. Fun fact: Had a small issue with the UUIDs, where I added a quote on left side to a system config file, but none was allowed there. Therefore (auto-)mounting failed (/dev/disk/by-uuid/\x22...) and it took some time till the system came u

Re: Late encryption of /home Partition

2021-11-18 Thread Charles Curley
On Thu, 18 Nov 2021 18:17:43 +0100 Hans wrote: > as far as I know, you also have to edit /etc/crypttab. Correct. Sorry, I forget that. "man crypttab". Do this before you run update-grub. > > If one has forgotten to encrypt a partition, the easiest way is, to > boot from a livefile system. Th

Re: Late encryption of /home Partition

2021-11-18 Thread Hans
Hi all, as far as I know, you also have to edit /etc/crypttab. If one has forgotten to encrypt a partition, the easiest way is, to boot from a livefile system. Then backup the whole content of this partition to an external partition. Note, this should be a ext3 or ext4 partition, so you preser

Re: Late encryption of /home Partition

2021-11-18 Thread Charles Curley
On Thu, 18 Nov 2021 14:40:14 +0100 Klaus Singvogel wrote: > I installed Debian 11 (bullseye) on a fresh PC. > I created 3 partitions: /, swap, /home. > > ...and forgot during installation dialog to encrypt the /home > partition. > > - how can I encrypt the /home partition now? > - In such a way

Late encryption of /home Partition

2021-11-18 Thread Klaus Singvogel
Hi, I installed Debian 11 (bullseye) on a fresh PC. I created 3 partitions: /, swap, /home. ...and forgot during installation dialog to encrypt the /home partition. - how can I encrypt the /home partition now? - In such a way that the password is asked for manual input during every boot? - do