how to encrypt home dir on upgrade

[Hakan Koseoglu]

On 9 May 2010 19:18, ssc1478 <ssc1478 at aim.com> wrote:
> Is it possible to encrypt the home dir using when upgrading to 10.04?
>  Or is that available only when installing fresh?
>
> I've not found much on google.  I've been searching "LVM encryption".
LVM encryption is for the whole volume. That would require rebuilding
the volume.

I found plenty with the "encrypted home ubuntu" search phrase.

http://jacob.hoffman-andrews.com/README/index.php/2009/12/08/howto-encrypt-an-existing-home-directory-on-ubuntu-karmic-koala/

http://blog.dustinkirkland.com/2009/02/jaunty-encrypted-home-directories.html

Dustin Kirkland's blog has plenty of excellent notes.

This has good pointers to encrypted volumes.
https://help.ubuntu.com/community/EncryptedFilesystems

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