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#1 2022-01-16 15:03:07
- fz1
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disable luks2 from /home
can I disable disk encryption without losing data?
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#2 2022-01-16 16:51:23
- Strike0
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Re: disable luks2 from /home
If /home is on a separate partition/blockdevice, yes. There are --decrypt options to permanently remove it, after a backup (of course). https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Dm-cry … ng_devices
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#3 2022-01-16 21:43:09
- fz1
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Re: disable luks2 from /home
If /home is on a separate partition/blockdevice, yes. There are --decrypt options to permanently remove it, after a backup (of course). https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Dm-cry … ng_devices
thank you!
/home is located as a separate partition, on a single disk. Is there a chance that I will lose data? I can only do this on a live usb/cd?
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#4 2022-01-16 23:48:55
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Re: disable luks2 from /home
There is always Murphy's Law until you backup first.
You don't necessarily need a separate live system. If all users with a /home directory are logged out and you log in as root, you should be able to unmount /home cleanly to run the cryptsetup action to --decrypt the device, right?
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