I'm thinking of moving to an encrypted home partition when setting up a new computer. Its a completely new machine. I'm a bit puzzled how to proceed.
I've looked at tutorials on how to use fscrypt and encryptfs but they are quite complicated and probably beyond my ability to carry out error free.
So finally it seems the simplest approved way is to create an encrypted home partition on the new machine, then take a backup of home and use it to restore to that partition. This would have the great merit of being very safe, the only thing one could mess up would be the new partition, or worst case the backup.
I can do a partition backup easily enough to an external hard drive using clonezilla. So I boot the new machine, connect the external with honme on it via usb... and then what?
Do I just copy all the files? Will that preserve the desktop and the links on it?
Or is there some way of restoring the partition itself to the encrypted partition?
Should have started out with full device encryption of course, but that was more years ago than I like to think!
Peter