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From: Matthias Schniedermeyer <ms@citd.de>
To: "Sayler, Craig A. (AFRC-MI)[InuTeq, LLC]" <craig.a.sayler@nasa.gov>
Cc: "dm-crypt@saout.de" <dm-crypt@saout.de>
Subject: Re: [dm-crypt] question
Date: Thu, 11 Dec 2014 23:04:53 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20141211220453.GA24563@citd.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <D0AF22AB.6A698%craig.a.sayler@nasa.gov>

On 11.12.2014 18:30, Sayler, Craig A. (AFRC-MI)[InuTeq, LLC] wrote:
> Is there a way to decrypt a drive permanently with out reinstalling?

Yes.

But the much safer way is:
Backup, make a new filesystem on the previous backing-device & Restore 
from backup.


The unsafe(!) 'inplace' method (that as an advantage doesn't need 
additional storage):
Just open the container normally, 'dd' the mapped container over the 
backing device and pray that process isn't interruped. Because it will 
be a huge PITA if it gets interruped.


But don't risk it, Backup & Restore is the way this should be done.




-- 

Matthias

  reply	other threads:[~2014-12-11 22:10 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2014-12-11 18:30 [dm-crypt] question Sayler, Craig A. (AFRC-MI)[InuTeq, LLC]
2014-12-11 22:04 ` Matthias Schniedermeyer [this message]
2014-12-11 22:07   ` Sayler, Craig A. (AFRC-MI)[InuTeq, LLC]
2014-12-11 22:54     ` Matthias Schniedermeyer
2014-12-12 12:12     ` Arno Wagner
2014-12-12 12:11   ` Arno Wagner
2014-12-12 12:59     ` Matthias Schniedermeyer
2014-12-13  0:21       ` Arno Wagner
2014-12-14 18:15   ` Milan Broz
2014-12-14 20:23     ` Arno Wagner
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2011-05-26 20:17 Guy Rachmuth
2011-05-27 12:14 ` Arno Wagner

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