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NewbLinuxUser

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Registered: 2015-04-11

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How To Encrypt Existing Ext4 Partition Without Re-formatting ?

Since Ext4 Encryption was announced for 4.1 , I was excited to implement it for my Arch system. I am using 4.1.2 at this moment and I would like to know how can I Encrypt my existing Ext4 partitions without re-formatting it.

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NewbLinuxUser

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Registered: 2015-04-11

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Re: How To Encrypt Existing Ext4 Partition Without Re-formatting ?

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frostschutz

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Registered: 2013-11-15

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Re: How To Encrypt Existing Ext4 Partition Without Re-formatting ?

You are too early. The userspace utility (e4crypt) is still in development and has not been officially released so far.

So at this time, while the kernel is able to encrypt, userspace has nothing to actually set it up with.

loafer

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Registered: 2009-04-14

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Re: How To Encrypt Existing Ext4 Partition Without Re-formatting ?

Can you share the details of the research you have done to date?

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fsckd

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Re: How To Encrypt Existing Ext4 Partition Without Re-formatting ?

:Bump:

Don't do that. https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Fo … te#Bumping

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