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How to remove encryption

I encrypted my Artix boot drive out of curiosity during installation, but encountered issues. Firstly, it often fails to accept my password, requiring multiple retries. Secondly, it takes around 60 seconds to process the password, causing inconvenience during frequent reboots. Can I remove the encryption? Is there a way to bypass the 60-second wait? Can I change the password to something simple like "1" for convenience, considering the encrypted drive only contains Artix?

Re: How to remove

Reply #1 –
Do you have /boot encrypted too?

  • To remove encryption see post below.
  • You can simply add the password "1" besides the old one:
    Code: [Select]
    cryptsetup luksAddKey /dev/sda3
    (Replace sda3 with the right value)

Re: How to remove

Reply #2 –
Rather than reinstall, if it would mean a lot of work recreating the system, after unencrypting, you could copy the partition contents to a normal partition (possibly to an external drive at first if required) then chroot in, edit /etc/fstab, mkinitcpio -P, grub install / update or whatever if needed, to make it bootable again.

According to this Arch Wiki page you can unencrypt although you should back up first:
https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Removing_system_encryption
Some other tweaks might be needed afterwards similar to above, don't know, never tried.