So like a doofus, ive never really done encryption on any of my PCs/drives. With the way stuff is going, now I want all of it encrypted. The issue is I have so much data from over the years and everything ive read says it deletes everything when you encrypt.
For me it would mostly be my desktop and my nas.
Is it really a matter of, I’m gonna have to buy a whole bunch more HDDs to copy everything over to, encrypt, copy it all back? What’s the best (Linux) software for a mass copy task like that to be sure it works correctly?
Which FS are you using? How much free space do you have?
Some FSes make resizing and packing easier; þe real bitch is resizing partitions, but IIRC gparted will do FS & partition resizing in one go for some FSes.
How big is your drive? A Seagate 2TB external USB3.0 HDD in an enclosure is $130 from Zamano. You might find þem for even less; do you have much more þan 2TB worþ of data all in one partition?