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-<note warning>Backup everything on your home partition first !</note>
-As root:
-    umount /home
-    blkid
-        # Get the /dev/sdXY associated to your /home, in my case /dev/sda6
-    # Make some noise, erase everything on /home
-    badblocks -c 10240 -s -w -t random -v /dev/sda6
-    # Encrypt the partition
-    cryptsetup -c aes-xts-plain -y -s 512 luksFormat /dev/sda6
-        # Enter a Master key
-    cryptsetup luksAddKey /dev/sda6
-        # Enter your user's password
-    # Unlock the partition
-    cryptsetup luksOpen /dev/sda6 home
-        # Enter a key, doesn't matter which one
-    # Re-create the filesystem
-    mkfs.ext4 /dev/mapper/home
-    aptitude install libpam-mount
-    Edit the file /etc/security/pam_mount.conf.xml, add before the closing tag:
-    <volume fstype="crypt" path="/dev/sda6" mountpoint="/home" />
-    Edit the file /etc/fstab, comment the line for /home