I was wondering if anyone could point me in the right direction to change distos. I currently am running Xubuntu and am considering moving to Debian.

I partitioned my drive with a /home parturition that was encrypted with LUKS on install.

Is there a way to properly move/copy keys, etc or should I copy home and them restore it?

  • tla@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    The encryption key is stored in the luks header on the disk and the phrase or key to open the encryption key can be entered at boot or after via the keyboard or from a file (usually a usb drive). So long as the luks header and encrypted data are not damaged and so long as you have the phrase or key that opens the encryption key it should survive the move. Take a dd backup of the disk just in case.