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I discovered this topic 'How to migrate an encrypted LVM install to a new disk' which was useful for creating lvm volumes on my new SSD. Nevertheless, my original Ubuntu 14.04 has just a /home encrypted (with ecryptfs) and the part showing the decrypt of /dev/sda5 is not appropriate to my case.

I would like to know in which order do the things, I mean, here is my lsblk : 

stee@stee-OptiPlex-760:~$ lsblk
NAME                  MAJ:MIN RM   SIZE RO TYPE  MOUNTPOINT
sda                     8:0    0   149G  0 disk  
├─sda1                  8:1    0  89,8G  0 part  /
├─sda2                  8:2    0     1K  0 part  
└─sda5                  8:5    0     2G  0 part  
  └─cryptswap1 (dm-0) 252:0    0     2G  0 crypt [SWAP]
sr0                    11:0    1  1024M  0 rom

I can't see where is my home, on sda1 or sda5 ??

Do i need to copy my crypted swap ?

Here is my /etc/fstab : 

# Use 'blkid' to print the universally unique identifier for a
# device; this may be used with UUID= as a more robust way to name devices
# that works even if disks are added and removed. See fstab(5).
#
# <file system> <mount point>   <type>  <options>       <dump>  <pass>
# / was on /dev/sda1 during installation
UUID=eef61317-fd02-4eee-85ce-8a00b20ef131 /               ext4    errors=remount-ro 0       1
# swap was on /dev/sda5 during installation
#UUID=da79fe68-814e-48e0-9fe8-bac41f1ffcbb none            swap    sw              0       0
/dev/mapper/cryptswap1 none swap sw 0 0

ANd my /etc/crypttab :

cryptswap1 /dev/sda5 /dev/urandom swap,cipher=aes-cbc-essiv:sha256

Ubuntuly

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eCryptfs doesn't encrypt an entire partition like LUKS/dm-crypt does, your home is stored (encrypted) in a regular folder, apparently somewhere on your sda1 root partition in your case.

Making a regular backup of your home while you're logged in (and it's mounted/decrypted) would be a good method to migrate it to another location (keeping the backup copy encrypted along the way, if desired).

Or investigate the ecryptfs-recover-private command/script, to view/copy your encrypted home if it's not automatically mounted/decrypted, after migrating perhaps.

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