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On Sat, Jul 4, 2020, at 04:23, Dale wrote: |
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> Now that I have a spare drive, I want to encrypt it and have a mount point for it, /home/dale/documents for example. What I'd like to do, when I login in, it asks me for the encryption password and then mounts it. When I log out, it reverses. I'm not doing all of /home because I want to separate some info. I may do it later. |
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I would use LUKS (warning: all data on the spare drive will be lost): |
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0. Partition the spare drive: parted /dev/sdx |
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1. Format the drive's partition with LUKS: cryptsetup luksFormat /dev/sdxn |
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2. Decrypt the LUKS partition: cryptsetup luksOpen /dev/sdxn documents |
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3. Create a filesystem on the decrypted partition: mke2fs -t ext4 -m 0 /dev/mapper/documents |
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4. Add the new filesystem to /etc/fstab (use the UUID for easier matching) |
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5. Mount the filesystem: mount /home/dale/documents |
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In order to close the filesystem, you need the following steps: |
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1. Unmount the filesystem: umount /home/dale/documents |
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2. Lock the LUKS partition: cryptsetup luksClose documents |
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Since you use KDE you may try Vault instead, but I haven't tested that personally. |
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