[ale] Ubuntu to Debian Switch?

[David Tomaschik]

The encryption concerns me as well, the LVM does not.  I can give
Debian a LV to install on no problem.  But I will be backing up to
another drive, testing the backup, and then doing the install.

David


On Wed, Mar 9, 2011 at 3:47 PM, Jim Kinney <jim.kinney at gmail.com> wrote:
> I would be rather paranoid due to the encryption layer. I would
> duplicate the unencrypted contents to a separate drive and toss the
> entire original drive in to the options for a new OS. It _should_ work
> to overlay a new OS and tell it to only mount the /home LV but ...
>
> My concern is that it's not a physical partition on the drive but part of a PV.
>
> On Wed, Mar 9, 2011 at 2:28 PM, David Tomaschik
> <david at systemoverlord.com> wrote:
>> I do NOT want to discuss Ubuntu's ethics on this thread.  There's a
>> separate thread for that.
>>
>> Has anyone switched from Ubuntu to Debian and kept /home around?  I
>> currently have an eCryptFS-encrypted /home dir, and I'd like to keep
>> that encryption, my preferences, and my data intact.  /home is a
>> separate partition (actually an LV on LVM on software RAID-1), so I
>> should just be able to blow Ubuntu away and install pure Debian,
>> right?  (I'm thinking Debian testing...)
>>
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