As you may or not know, I said it in triage I think, I changed Mint for Kubuntu, only to find out the /home drive is encrypted. I got around decrypting it. Now I'm stuck at figuring out how to remove eCryptfs from the drive so every time you change distro you dont need to spend HOURS trying to find out how to unlock it to access your files. By the looks of it, ever since during Mint install, I could have put a checkmark on "Encrypt this drive" option thus its always encrypted no matter what OS you are on. I didn't know much about that and that was my mistake. Is there any safe way to remove encryption on Linux overall or the best way is to copy all files to a flash drive, format the whole SSD and recreate the partitions again then copying back everything?
#How to remove eCryptfs from /home entirely?
low peak
Isn't there much more practical way?
This is the only way you can access /home right now, completely annoying and useless browsing 100 directories
/media/administrator/Home/.ecryptfs/administrator/.Private
Like what the fuck... Even if its auto-mounted, you still get
You have to go to OS drive, tmp folder, ecryptfs folder and then you can browse everything
Annoying as hell
Whoever designed this eCryptfs tool should have had a fucking GUI for this for real
No way a beginner user would know what to do with it without spending hours on Google and even then I cant find info how to disable it - I spent like an hour today already
reef sky
There is no practical way. You should watch extremely carefully when you do any install to NOT elect to encrypt anything
save your data and reinstall fresh.
gilded mauve
@low peak You use the Ubuntu Layout
So just... use the Ubuntu tools to remove ecryptfs
low peak
save your data and reinstall fresh.
Thats what I did