During the bi-yearly review of my setup, I realized I was running a Linux machine without full disk encryption. The encryption of the disk needed to be done ASAP, but I was not willing to reinstall the whole operating system to achieve that. Solution? I came up with an interesting way to encrypt my existing … Continue reading Encrypt an existing Linux installation with zero downtime (LUKS on LVM)
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Linux: using bind mount to move a subset of root subdirectories to another partion or disk
I was in the situation dealing with a Linux box with two hard disks: /dev/sda: fast hard drive (SSD), small size (~200 GB) /dev/sdb: very big hard drive (HDD), large size (~4 TB) The operating system was installed on /dev/sda, so I had /dev/sdb empty. I knew I could create a mount point (e.g. /storage) … Continue reading Linux: using bind mount to move a subset of root subdirectories to another partion or disk