[SOLVED]encrypt existing /home on a reinstall

[Trio3b]

Going to try a re-install of pclos 2012.02 on Toshiba A305 that currently has 2010. The existing /home is NOT encrypted. I noticed installer did not give option to do so during trial run. I did an encrypted partition on another laptop but it was a fresh install of a clean / and clean /home. Am assuming this option appears only if /home is a new fresh partition. I do have data backed up.

any trick to encrypting this existing /home partition during drakinstall?
Any thoughts appreciated

[AS]

Hi Trio3b,

Going to try a re-install of pclos 2012.02 on Toshiba A305 that currently has 2010.

I'm assuming it was originally installed from a 2010 ISO, and fully updated, therefore effectively a 2012.

The existing /home is NOT encrypted. I noticed installer did not give option to do so during trial run. I did an encrypted partition on another laptop but it was a fresh install of a clean / and clean /home. Am assuming this option appears only if /home is a new fresh partition. I do have data backed up.

Correct!

any trick to encrypting this existing /home partition during drakinstall?
Any thoughts appreciated

You have to create a new encrypted partition, say on /dev/sda5, a new partition will appear out: /dev/mapper/crypt_sda5
then you need to create a filesystem on top of the encrypted partition, this should explain why you can't encrypt an existing partition.

You should find several details here ...
http://pclosmag.com/html/Issues/201108/page19.html

Have fun! 

AS

[Trio3b]

That pretty much explains everything. I am getting ahead of myself here as I have yet to successfully install 2012.02 to this Toshiba A305 as described over in the laptop hardware forums if you care to follow it over there.

Thank you AS.

[AS]

That pretty much explains everything. I am getting ahead of myself here as I have yet to successfully install 2012.02 to this Toshiba A305 as described over in the laptop hardware forums if you care to follow it over there.

Thank you AS.

Can't find ... Link please ?

[Trio3b]

Sorry, here it is -->  http://www.pclinuxos.com/forum/index.php/topic,102827.0.html