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What's the easiest way to decrypt a disk partition?

I made a mistake of encrypting the entire LVM physical volume (contains both home, root, and swap) when installing a CentOS 6.4 (2.6.32-358.6.1.el6.x86_64) box. I soon came to realize that moving ...
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How to add RAID5 to existing crypto-LVM?

I recently installed Debian Wheezy and let the installer guide partition the disk using a whole partition with encryption (LVM). Later on I've added four disks and setup RAID5 on them (using mdadm). ...
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LVM + LUKS + SSD + Gentoo — making it all work together

I'm finding a lot of conflicting information out there, and as of yet haven't found anyone trying to pull together all of the components that I'm trying to do, so I'm hoping someone who understands ...
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Recovering overwritten LVM metadata

Yesterday I was trying using the Debian install in rescue mode in order to fix my Grub (The menu-item for Debian was suddenly gone). Now I wasn't able to fix it and didn't have a lot of time, so I ...
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Any reason for encrypted /?

I am a big fan of linux and like trying out new distros now and then. I usually have my home folders and roots in a lvm atop an encrypted partition, but this tends to become cumbersome with every ...
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Install Backtrack 5 r2 into running LUKS setup installed with ubuntu

One Harddisk (sda) Two Partions. With a working ubuntu running. 1) /boot 2) LVM with this virtual volumes/partions/ or whatever they are called inside: Swap Ubuntu Home Prepared for Backtrack Of ...
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Uninstall the Encrypted LVM function to remove the prompted password entry during Ubuntu Boot

When I installed Ubuntu 11.04 and I was offered the option of enabling "encrypted LVM" for my hard drive. After choosing that option, I am prompted for my password during boot to decrypt the LVM. ...
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RHEL6 LUKS with TPM support?

I'm surprised that this question is not asked more frequently, but (in RHEL) does LUKS support TPM's the way that Windows BitLocker does? If so, how is this feature implemented, and does it provide ...
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SSH to decrypt encrypted LVM during headless server boot?

When I installed Ubuntu 10.04 and, now, 10.10, I was offered the option of enabling "encrypted LVM" for my hard drive. After choosing that option, I am prompted for my password during boot to decrypt ...