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I discovered this topic 'How to migrate an encrypted LVM install to a new disk' which was useful for creating lvm volumes on my new SSD. Nevertheless, my original Ubuntu 14.04 has just a /home encrypted (with ecryptfs) and the part showing the decrypt of /dev/sda5 is not appropriate to my case.

I would like to know in which order do the things, I mean, here is my lsblk : 

stee@stee-OptiPlex-760:~$ lsblk
NAME                  MAJ:MIN RM   SIZE RO TYPE  MOUNTPOINT
sda                     8:0    0   149G  0 disk  
├─sda1                  8:1    0  89,8G  0 part  /
├─sda2                  8:2    0     1K  0 part  
└─sda5                  8:5    0     2G  0 part  
  └─cryptswap1 (dm-0) 252:0    0     2G  0 crypt [SWAP]
sr0                    11:0    1  1024M  0 rom

I can't see where is my home, on sda1 or sda5 ??

Do i need to copy my crypted swap ?

Here is my /etc/fstab : 

# Use 'blkid' to print the universally unique identifier for a
# device; this may be used with UUID= as a more robust way to name devices
# that works even if disks are added and removed. See fstab(5).
#
# <file system> <mount point>   <type>  <options>       <dump>  <pass>
# / was on /dev/sda1 during installation
UUID=eef61317-fd02-4eee-85ce-8a00b20ef131 /               ext4    errors=remount-ro 0       1
# swap was on /dev/sda5 during installation
#UUID=da79fe68-814e-48e0-9fe8-bac41f1ffcbb none            swap    sw              0       0
/dev/mapper/cryptswap1 none swap sw 0 0

ANd my /etc/crypttab :

cryptswap1 /dev/sda5 /dev/urandom swap,cipher=aes-cbc-essiv:sha256

Ubuntuly

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eCryptfs doesn't encrypt an entire partition like LUKS/dm-crypt does, your home is stored (encrypted) in a regular folder, apparently somewhere on your sda1 root partition in your case.

Making a regular backup of your home while you're logged in (and it's mounted/decrypted) would be a good method to migrate it to another location (keeping the backup copy encrypted along the way, if desired).

Or investigate the ecryptfs-recover-private command/script, to view/copy your encrypted home if it's not automatically mounted/decrypted, after migrating perhaps.

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  • Also (after you backup the encrypted data), don't just copy/migrate your data to the SSD. You want a clean install of Ubuntu that has been configured (at install time) to use SSD as primary media.
    – david6
    Apr 29, 2015 at 10:57
  • I'll give 'ecryptfs-recover-private' a try once booted on my usb key.<br>I guess finally that my cryptswap isn't necessary to recover and in fact i was going in the bad direction. I keep you informed. Thanks
    – alaakaazaam
    Apr 29, 2015 at 12:55
  • @david6 : yeah it's my goal, switching from my old sata to ssd primary drive, i already made it on my laptop but starting from scratch, i.e : reinstalling all the stuff, hope this new way will make it :)
    – alaakaazaam
    Apr 29, 2015 at 15:14
  • Finally, i formated my whole ssd to create a big sdb1 partition + an extended of 4G. Then through gparted, i just copied sda1 to sdb1 and made a good coffee til it accomplished (by the way my crypted home went in sdb1), then started the tricky part when it came to change uuid of sdb1 (take a look here : askubuntu.com/questions/132079/…). I then restarted and faced a 'time-has-stopped' grub prompt from which i started thanks to this grateful post : linux.com/learn/tutorials/….
    – alaakaazaam
    Apr 29, 2015 at 16:39
  • my lsblk :</br> NAME MAJ:MIN RM SIZE RO TYPE MOUNTPOINT</br> sda 8:0 0 111,8G 0 disk</br> ├─sda1 8:1 0 96,7G 0 part /</br> ├─sda2 8:2 0 1K 0 part </br> └─sda5 8:5 0 2G 0 part </br> └─cryptswap1 (dm-0) 252:0 0 2G 0 crypt [SWAP]</br> sr0 11:0 1 1024M 0 rom </br>
    – alaakaazaam
    Apr 29, 2015 at 16:46

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