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expatver
May 5th, 2016, 11:29 PM
Running 16.04 Desktop (64). I did not encrypt /home on install. Any recommend on a good way to do this and possible risks involved. Anyone done this and what were your results.

Note I ve viewed the how to here

https://help.ubuntu.com/community/PostInstallationEncryption

and as stipulated this is only known good on 12.04.

Regards &Many thanks.

Expat

ubu_dynamite
May 6th, 2016, 12:08 AM
That howto should still mostly be relevant just make sure you have a backup of your data just in case, witch you should have already if you care about your data.

man ecryptfs-migrate-home

expatver
May 6th, 2016, 12:14 AM
Ubu_dynamite

Yep already have the backups. Thanks. Be interesting to see if it works or no, eh?

Many thanks

Expat