Undo encrpyted partition

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Is there anyway to undo a LUKS encrypted filesystem in Debian Etch? I selected the encypted LVM option during setup, but I'd like to remove that now. Is it possible without a complete system rebuild? I haven't done that much work on the system... but if there is an easy way out....

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Undo encrpyted partition

Submitted by pinniped on Sun, 2007-05-06 17:21.

Data from all encrypted partitions need to be moved to a non-encrypted partition and the encrypted part needs to be reformatted with a non-encrypted FS. If you used LUKS to create one giant encrypted virtual device which was then partitioned, then you need to back up all your data and start all over. Installing all your software is easy; before you erase everything, get a USB stick or even a floppy disk:

dpkg --get-selections > /your/removable/storage/software.list

After installing a base system:

dpkg --set-selections < /your/removable/storage/software.list
apt-get dselect-upgrade

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