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Is there a way to move a LUKS-encrypted btrfs volume to the right?
I want to move a LUKS-encrypted btrfs volume to the right. GParted is telling me it knows how to move the LUKS layer to the right, but it doesn’t know how to move the btrfs layer to the right. Can I ...
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How to permanently delete a LUKS encrypted partition?
I have been using a LUKS encrypted partition as my /home directory on Manjaro. However, as I have to resize and move a few of my disk partitions, I would like to get rid of it. On Manjaro, I have ...
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Converting Linux partition to crypto_LUKS
I'm currently working on RHEL 8.9 and attempting to harden a VM of mine, and looking into applying the crypto_LUKS encryption to my active partitions. When I check my partitions using the blkid ...
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Extending encrypted partition (LVM, LUKS)
I'm running a dual boot (Win 10 Pro, Ubuntu 20.04) system on a single NVMe harddisk. Linux contains one encrypted root partition, an encrypted boot partition and a swap partition. As the root ...
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Unsure if I encrypted external HDD correctly with LUKS
I followed the instruction from this page.
I was unable to encrypt the the disk, but was able to encrypt its partition. I don't if it was the correct thing to do, but i did it anyway because it's not ...
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LUKS with separate /home within encrypted volume
First time using full disk encryption with LUKS. Sorry for a lot of novice questions.
Before using full disk encryption, I used to have separate partitions /boot, /, home which allow to to reinstall ...
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Is it safe to move a LUKS encrypted partition to another system and be able to use the same passphrase?
If I have a LUKS encrypted partition with a passphrase, is all the information to unlock the partition contained in the header?
Is the following correct:
The passphrase allows access to the header ...
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Files on encrypted LUKS take up more space
I have 2 drives (both the same size). One of them just has a simple ext4 partition on it. The other drive is encrypted with LUKS, opened and also formatted with ext4.
However, when I copy files from ...
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Encrypting the hard drive without formatting
Is there a way to encrypt an hard drive in ubuntu after installation? I know we can encrypt while installing the OS but I dont want to re-install the OS. There are 300gb of files and applications ...
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Data access speed in LUKS encrypted partition
In Linux (Fedora 28) I have my home directory LUKS encryped, when using Gnome Disk (screenshot), I can benchmark separately the underlying LUKS partition (upper blue rectangle) and the decrypted home ...
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Dualboot Windows on existing LUKS full encrypted hdd
So, I have a HDD with data on it, encrypted. I would like to install windows (8 or 10) on the same drive (allocate some space on it from that partition, it has 500+ GB free right now. I don't want to ...
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LUKS encrypted drive not booting after modifying partition table with TestDIsk
I screwed up my partition table the other day but had recovered it with TestDisk. After re-writing the partition table, I'm able to boot up into GRUB and subsequently the interface for entering my ...
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Remove encryption setup on a lvm/luks partition
On my linux machine, I have setup disk encryption using lvm/luks. However later I delete one of the partition and format it to NTFS in order to use it on Windows (as I have dual boot linux/win10).
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Encrypt disk volume with LUKS, enable access without passphrase
How can I set “no passphrase, and don't prompt for one” on a LUKS volume, leaving it encrypted as is?
Enabling LUKS encryption is a one-way, time-consuming operation. I need to divide the set-up of ...
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LUKS encrypted flash drive: no partition table
I have 16GB encrypted LUKS flash drive with corrupted partition table. Here is the fdisk output:
fdisk -l /dev/sdf
Disk /dev/sdf: 16.2 GB, 16236150784 bytes
64 heads, 32 sectors/track, 15484 ...
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