Re: [gentoo-user] Replace 8TB drive with 10TB drive on encrypted LVM

[Dale <rdalek1967@gmail.com>]

Frank Steinmetzger wrote:
> Am Wed, Sep 14, 2022 at 12:40:21AM -0500 schrieb Dale:
>
>> Now to replace my /home drive which is also close to full.  It's not
>> encrypted tho. The biggest difference in this and plain LVM, resizing
>> with cryptsetup or close and reopen.  Keep in mind, while I did all
>> this, LUKS, cryptsetup, whatever was open.
> I recently learnt that you can encrypt an unencrypted devices on-the-fly.
> Kinda neat. It is also resilient to hard interruptions like power-offs.
> See man cryptsetup-reencrypt.
>
> But if you want to replace the drive anyways, it may be faster to set up a
> new device and rsync the files in the last step. I always use these kinds of
> opportunities to weed out old cruft on my filesystem.
>


The reason I left /home itself plain, when I leave, I lock the encrypted
parts.  I need the rest of /home plain so I can leave downloads and such
running.  If all of /home was encrypted, then I'd have to stop my
downloads or just store them elsewhere.  The things I want to keep
secure, they are in the encrypted parts. 

I don't keep a lot of cruft around. The only exception, I need to clean
out bookmarks in Seamonkey.  I have a tool that helps in Firefox but
sadly, Seamonkey has few working addon type tools anymore.  Other than
email, I'd like to switch to something else.  Wouldn't mind switching
anyway but I just don't like the options. 

Dale

:-)  :-)