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Sometimes in your Linux life, you want to carry your data on a disk, but well encrypted so no one else can steal and read it. This article describes how to format and encrypt a disk. It uses SUSE Linux 11.1 as example, but it should work same or similar with any distribution. | Sometimes in your Linux life, you want to carry your data on a disk, but well encrypted so no one else can steal and read it. This article describes how to format and encrypt a disk. It uses SUSE Linux 11.1 as example, but it should work same or similar with any distribution. | ||
| + | = Encrypt it = | ||
* Start the disk partitioner | * Start the disk partitioner | ||
yast2 disk | yast2 disk | ||
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* enter a password for your system => next => finish | * enter a password for your system => next => finish | ||
| − | + | = Test it = | |
| − | # cryptsetup -v luksOpen /dev/sdd1 blah | + | # cryptsetup -v luksOpen /dev/sdd1 ''blah'' |
Enter LUKS passphrase: | Enter LUKS passphrase: | ||
key slot 0 unlocked. | key slot 0 unlocked. | ||
Command successful. | Command successful. | ||
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| + | # mount /dev/mapper/''blah'' /mnt/test | ||
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| + | = See also = | ||
| + | * [[security]] | ||
| + | * http://en.opensuse.org/Encrypted_Root_File_System | ||
Latest revision as of 18:22, 8 January 2011
Sometimes in your Linux life, you want to carry your data on a disk, but well encrypted so no one else can steal and read it. This article describes how to format and encrypt a disk. It uses SUSE Linux 11.1 as example, but it should work same or similar with any distribution.
Encrypt it
- Start the disk partitioner
yast2 disk
- Select a partition you want to format or a disk where you want to add an encrypted partition
- Choose Format partition and "encrypt file system"
- If you get an information that you need to install "pam_mount", allow this
- choose "next"
- enter a password for your system => next => finish
Test it
# cryptsetup -v luksOpen /dev/sdd1 blah Enter LUKS passphrase: key slot 0 unlocked. Command successful. # mount /dev/mapper/blah /mnt/test
