[SOLVED] Cannot migrate to encrypted home partition

Question

So I installed Arch to play around and familiarise myself with, and I'd now like to use it full time. My company require that either home dir or full disk encryption is used, so I need to migrate my home directory using ecryptfs. Followed the wiki (created a test user to break first though), but it fails as lsof seems to see its own process checking for open files as an open file: cue much
INFO: Checking disk space, this may take a few moments. Please be patient.
INFO: Checking for open files in /home/shw
INFO: The following files are in use:
COMMAND PID USER FD TYPE DEVICE SIZE/OFF NODE NAME
systemd 1 root 19r FIFO 0,8 0t0 8339 pipe
lsof 428 root 1w FIFO 0,8 0t0 10969 pipe
lsof 428 root 4w FIFO 0,8 0t0 9076 pipe
lsof 428 root 5r FIFO 0,8 0t0 9077 pipe
sed 429 root 0r FIFO 0,8 0t0 10969 pipe
lsof 430 root 3r FIFO 0,8 0t0 9076 pipe
lsof 430 root 6w FIFO 0,8 0t0 9077 pipe
ERROR: Cannot proceed.
Any suggestions?
Last edited by analbeard (2014-11-20 08:24:39)

Answer 1

I will give it try tomorrow and inform you about the outcome. I will use the guide  by anarxc http://sysphere.org/~anrxc/j/articles/e … index.html
Just to complete the information. When I logged in as root, (right after the boot) I got this
[root@notebook ~]$ ecryptfs-migrate-home -u user
INFO: Checking disk space, this may take a few moments. Please be patient.
INFO: Checking for open files in /home/shw
INFO: The following files are in use:
COMMAND PID USER FD TYPE DEVICE SIZE/OFF NODE NAME
systemd 1 root 22r FIFO 0,8 0t0 1196 pipe
systemd 1 root 23u FIFO 0,15 0t0 1198 /run/dmeventd-server
systemd 1 root 24u FIFO 0,15 0t0 1199 /run/dmeventd-client
systemd 1 root 26u FIFO 0,15 0t0 1203 /run/systemd/initctl/fifo
NetworkMa 258 root 20w FIFO 0,15 0t0 10093 /run/systemd/inhibit/1.ref
systemd-l 260 root 19r FIFO 0,15 0t0 10093 /run/systemd/inhibit/1.ref
systemd-l 260 root 26r FIFO 0,15 0t0 14800 /run/systemd/sessions/c2.ref
login 527 root 6w FIFO 0,15 0t0 14800 /run/systemd/sessions/c2.ref
ecryptfs- 669 root 1w FIFO 0,8 0t0 16695 pipe
tee 670 root 0r FIFO 0,8 0t0 16695 pipe
lsof 692 root 1w FIFO 0,8 0t0 16798 pipe
lsof 692 root 4w FIFO 0,8 0t0 15619 pipe
lsof 692 root 5r FIFO 0,8 0t0 15620 pipe
sed 693 root 0r FIFO 0,8 0t0 16798 pipe
sed 693 root 1w FIFO 0,8 0t0 16695 pipe
lsof 694 root 3r FIFO 0,8 0t0 15619 pipe
lsof 694 root 6w FIFO 0,8 0t0 15620 pipe
ERROR: cannot proceed
Last edited by macaco (2014-11-17 23:43:45)