Re: permanently decrypt hdd
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I want to permanently decrypt the drive. How do I do this?
Hi Douglas
Ubuntu doesn't encrypt things unless you tell it to: which you can do per hard drive or for home directories. To "permanently decrypt", simply don't encrypt!
You could either reinstall, or if you tell us what's encrypted we might be able to help.
Though I see you're using 11.10. Perhaps I'm out of date with my statement that it doesn't do it by default. In which case: use 10.04 LTS, and it doesn't encrypt.
Does that help at all?
Kind regards,
Jonathan
Re: permanently decrypt hdd
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Originally Posted by
Jonathan L
You could either reinstall, or if you tell us what's encrypted we might be able to help.
Oops, after all my searches including it, I left it out of the post. It's full disk encryption. That is, it's an LVM.
This disk *was* in a higher performance machine and was in another location that made encryption more relevant. Performance was fine when in the higher performance machine.
I think the command may be ecryptfsd. I was trying to just use "ecrypt" before and there was no man page for that and it didn't exist. I am not in the same location at the moment, so I can't look back at the logs, but I can do that later and give specific things I tried if it helps. I've got something to look for now that I remembered the "fs" part.
Re: permanently decrypt hdd
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Originally Posted by
DouglasAWh
Oops, after all my searches including it, I left it out of the post. It's full disk encryption. That is, it's an LVM.
This disk *was* in a higher performance machine and was in another location that made encryption more relevant. Performance was fine when in the higher performance machine.
I think the command may be ecryptfsd. I was trying to just use "ecrypt" before and there was no man page for that and it didn't exist. I am not in the same location at the moment, so I can't look back at the logs, but I can do that later and give specific things I tried if it helps. I've got something to look for now that I remembered the "fs" part.
Hi Douglas
With ecryptfsd, you get another mounted filesystem, which is a decrypted version of the mounted encrypted filesystem. Use any method of copying it to another non-encrypted place such as a network mount, exactly like a backup/restore. Depending what it is, you might like to use cp, tar, dd. Reformat the encrypted disk as a non-encrypted one, and restore.
Deteails of this depend on whether it's the only disk in your system or not.
Any help?
Kind regards,
Jonathan.