Extra Extra read all about it - Preupgrade released....

Jeremy Katz katzj at redhat.com
Thu Apr 17 17:59:03 UTC 2008


On Thu, 2008-04-17 at 09:41 -0700, Francis Earl wrote:
> On Thu, 2008-04-17 at 12:00 -0400, Jeremy Katz wrote:
> > On Thu, 2008-04-17 at 10:55 -0500, Justin Conover wrote:
> > > Does preupgrade/anaconda allow to add encrypted disk to the current
> > > FS, or is that low level and need to be done on the format before
> > > install (new install).
> > 
> > It requires reformatting and thus a fresh install
>
> I thought that was the point of PreUpgrade, to allow to do tasks that
> can't be done on an active system (like via yum)?

There are some cases where this can be done, but there's just not any
way to do the migration to an encrypted system without reformatting the
underlying device.

Jeremy




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