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Installing Debian while heeping ecryptfs home directory

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graemep
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Installing Debian while heeping ecryptfs home directory

#1 Post by graemep »

I want to install Debian 9 on laptop that currently has Ubuntu 16.04 installed.

There are two partitions /home and /

When moving from one distro to another with the same sort of partitioning without an encrypted home directory, I allowed the installer to reformat the / partiation and kept /home, use the same usernames, and then changed file ownership if the user number changed.

I now have an encrypted home directory. What do I need to do to be able to backup after installing Debian? Do I need to preserve anything outside /home?

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