[ale] Ubuntu to Debian Switch?

[Jim Kinney]

I'm very unclear on _where_ the keys are stored. I _think_ it's in the
"wrapper" on the encrypted partition and thus is fully enclosed inside
the LV so it will survive nicely. But I haven't seen documentation to
back up that idea.

Regardless of what Preston says, be a wimp and backup what matters first :-)

On Wed, Mar 9, 2011 at 5:44 PM, David Tomaschik
<david at systemoverlord.com> wrote:
> The encryption concerns me as well, the LVM does not.  I can give
> Debian a LV to install on no problem.  But I will be backing up to
> another drive, testing the backup, and then doing the install.
>
> David
>
>
> On Wed, Mar 9, 2011 at 3:47 PM, Jim Kinney <jim.kinney at gmail.com> wrote:
>> I would be rather paranoid due to the encryption layer. I would
>> duplicate the unencrypted contents to a separate drive and toss the
>> entire original drive in to the options for a new OS. It _should_ work
>> to overlay a new OS and tell it to only mount the /home LV but ...
>>
>> My concern is that it's not a physical partition on the drive but part of a PV.
>>
>> On Wed, Mar 9, 2011 at 2:28 PM, David Tomaschik
>> <david at systemoverlord.com> wrote:
>>> I do NOT want to discuss Ubuntu's ethics on this thread.  There's a
>>> separate thread for that.
>>>
>>> Has anyone switched from Ubuntu to Debian and kept /home around?  I
>>> currently have an eCryptFS-encrypted /home dir, and I'd like to keep
>>> that encryption, my preferences, and my data intact.  /home is a
>>> separate partition (actually an LV on LVM on software RAID-1), so I
>>> should just be able to blow Ubuntu away and install pure Debian,
>>> right?  (I'm thinking Debian testing...)
>>>
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