create luks lvm partition

• by laurent
• January 31, 2011
• 1 Comment

lvcreate -L 500M -n crypto cryptovg Fill your partition with random data: dd if=/dev/urandom of=/dev/ cryptovg /crypto initialize your partition: cryptsetup –verbose –verify-passphrase luksFormat /dev/ cryptovg / crypto open the newly encrypted device: cryptsetup luksOpen /dev/ cryptovg / crypto cryptosec check it’s there: ls -l /dev/mapper | grep cryptosec create a filesystem: mkfs.ext4 /dev/mapper/cryptosec mount… Read More »create luks lvm partition