On Thu, 2010-01-07 at 12:11 +0800, Li, Yan I wrote: > On Tue, Jan 05, 2010 at 11:46:16PM +0800, Dustin Kirkland wrote: > > All of the instructions and commands should be clearly described here: > > * > > http://blog.dustinkirkland.com/2009/06/migrating-to-encrypted-home-directory.html > > Won't it be much simpler if we just do the migration in this way, > using ecryptfs-setup-private's bootstrap mode (as root): > > # mv /home/$USER /home/$USER.old > # mkdir -p -m 700 /home/$USER > # ecryptfs-setup-private -b -u $USER > # rsync -a /home/$USER.old/ /home/$USER/ > # rm -rf /home/$USER.old/ (if needed) > > I have tried and they worked.
Ah, yeah, that's the basic concept, for sure. I created that blog post as a narrative version of that code. Note that you'll need to do some sanity checking before doing the rsync. You'll need (conservatively) 1.5 x the disk usage of the clear text code to do the rsync and expect it to complete. We could alternatively use mv, or there's a mv (remove source) option you can add to rsync. But we need to be very safe about these. :-Dustin
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