Changing password of encrypted drive without having to wipe?
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I apparently need to use the same password for my second encrypted drive as for my system drive if i want them all to mount from the boot. Unfortunately for me i wasn't aware of this until i had already encrypted it with a different password.
When changing a drive password you are forced to apply a wipe mode of at least one pass. Why does VC force applying a wipe mode for changing drive passwords but not for initial encryption? Considering i just spent three days encrypting this drive with a one-pass wipe i'd very much like to not have to do that again just to change the password of a drive that already has been wiped.
Is there no way i can make this drive mountable at boot without having to go through the same process again? Mounting at login isn't quite the same as i use this drive for auto-start items among other things.
Did you ever find a solution to this? Same issue here. I'd like to change the password of a giant volume, and it seems very unnecessary to have to wipe the whole thing. What did you end up doing...?
It's only the password that gets wiped, not the whole volume. It won't take long.
Ah, excellent - thanks for the reply :)
(I guess that was just a bit unclear in the UI - I actually did go through the documentation too, but couldn't find anything elaborating on what this does, & Google eventually turned me up here. If only it just said "Wipe encryption header" or "Wipe password" or something more explicit ;)).
Cheers~