Encrypt existing filesystem/partition to GEOM GELI

Alec Berryman alec at thened.net
Tue Feb 14 08:30:31 PST 2006


Balgansuren Batsukh on 2006-02-15 00:17:18 +0800:

> It is delete/erase existing all data on hard disk/partition.
> 
> I need to find a way to migrate existing partition/hard disk data
> without lose.

You'll need to make a backup of the data, erase the partition, create
an encrypted one in its place, and restore.  You can't encrypt the
partition in-place with GELI or GBDE.
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