So I just had a fun / probably bad idea: I'd like to convert my Arch PC to use encryption on the root partition. I'll likely try copying the root filestructure to an external drive before formatting, doing a fresh install in a dm-crypt part, and then copy back. Would that work?
Consider: Gentoo is *shipped* as a tarball you untar and that's your root filesystem. Literally the install process is just fdisk;mkfs;mount;tar xpf;chroot, then configure a kernel and bootloader (and other misc settings). No different than a backup!
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This is what I hoped to hear tbh. Thanks for the info.
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i actually keep pestering other distros to do the same. having an elaborate bootloader setup is something no distro installer will ever support. opensuse can do it, but they don't ship tarballs.
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I've done some horrible things to Ubuntu (not my choice). You can get some pretty nonstandard setups to work with preseed scripts and patches, but then you wind up having to divert files so it doesn't stomp over your setup on updates... It's ugly. I run Gentoo on my stuff.
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