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S Oct 8 at 12:08 history edited AdminBee CC BY-SA 4.0
Fix formatting
S Oct 8 at 12:08 history suggested chronohart CC BY-SA 4.0
Changed "cryptsetup-reencrypt" to "cryptsetup reencrypt" and added note on why.
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S Oct 8 at 12:08
Jan 4, 2024 at 18:53 comment added a coder How do I determine which LUKS version is in play?
Jul 5, 2023 at 10:00 comment added smartmouse You may add to your post to use lsblk --fs to figure out what is the <device_path> to decrypt
Dec 7, 2022 at 13:45 comment added Daniel Porteous Note for me, after I did steps 2 and 3 above (under "for LUKS2") I had to reboot to avoid issues like this: Attaching loopback device failed (loop device with autoclear flag is required)
May 24, 2022 at 7:18 history edited AdminBee CC BY-SA 4.0
Minor improvement to formatting
Jan 29, 2021 at 18:42 comment added jagauthier This was fantastic. Thank you! I want to add a little. After doing this on a CentOS system (RH probably similiar) you must take a few more steps to allow it to boot (assuming it was a boot partition). Boot from a Install Media, and Rescue the system. chroot in the system /mnt/sysroot. remove /etc/crypttab. Edit /etc/default/grub and remove the luks portion. Regenerate the grub config: grub2-mkconfig -o /etc/efi/EFI/centos/grub.cfg Reinstall grub. yum reinstall grub2-efi (This part was a little tricky, without internet access, but there is a package repo on the recovery disk)
Aug 26, 2020 at 21:10 history edited Chen She CC BY-SA 4.0
Rewrite
Aug 26, 2020 at 21:04 history edited Chen She CC BY-SA 4.0
Rewrite
Aug 25, 2020 at 14:17 history edited Chen She CC BY-SA 4.0
Add note
Aug 25, 2020 at 13:40 review Late answers
Aug 25, 2020 at 13:47
Aug 25, 2020 at 13:39 history edited Chen She CC BY-SA 4.0
edit for clarity
Aug 25, 2020 at 13:21 history answered Chen She CC BY-SA 4.0