Hi Noah, You might be able to achieve this with ecryptfs, from Ubuntu. It can mount an encrypted drive with unencrypted-passthrough; you can then run around rewriting all the files to convert them. ie. mount -t ecryptfs encrypted crypted find -type f crypted -exec rewrite_file \{\} \; where rewrite_file does something like cp $FILE tmp_file rm $FILE mv tmp_file $FILE -Toby On Thu, 23 Apr 2015 at 08:36 Noah O'Donoghue <noah.odonoghue@gmail.com> wrote:
Hey all,
I have a few cases where I'd like to encrypt without taking the system down for extended periods, ie, servers.
In the windows/apple world truecrypt / bitlocker / filevault will all let you encrypt the root partition as a background process, throttled to a low IO load. Usually this requires a reboot to get started, then runs in the background.
Does anyone know how to achieve this in the Linux world? (preferably with luks)
-Noah _______________________________________________ luv-main mailing list luv-main@luv.asn.au http://lists.luv.asn.au/listinfo/luv-main