# luks process En root apt install cryptsetup Copy your home directory to a temporary directory on a different partition: mkdir /homebackup cp -a /home/* /homebackup Encrypt your home partition: umount /home cryptsetup -h sha512 -c aes-xts-plain64 -s 512 luksFormat /dev/sda5 cryptsetup luksOpen /dev/sda5 chome mkfs.ext4 -m 0 /dev/mapper/chome Add this line to /etc/crypttab: chome /dev/sda5 none luks,timeout=30 Set the home partition to this in /etc/fstab (replacing the original home partition line): /dev/mapper/chome /home ext4 nodev,nosuid,noatime 0 2 Copy your home data back into the encrypted partition: mount /home cp -a /homebackup/* /home rm -rf /homebackup