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Disk encryption and recovery/migration to another box

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http://forums.fedoraforum.org – So the paranoid story goes like this: I have a 6-yrs old laptop that I use and which is slowly dying (right side of the screen is no longer working, the power cable is interrupted and since last night Fedora is working sloooow). Since I have some work-related stuff on it, I decided to encrypt the hdd using the option available in Anaconda (I did a fresh install of Fedora this spring). I've been looking into F16 docs for how to access encrypted data if: - I want to use a live CD of Fedora - I want to reinstall Fedora - I want to migrate everything to a new box - I want to use the same (HowTos)

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Submitted by sine on 11/23/2012

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