#luksclose

Setting-Up LUKS/dm-crypt for External USB-Drive

The following commands are used to encrypt the whole USB hard-drive. This hard-drive is assumed to be on /dev/sdc. Create one partition. One can use gparted for this. Then

cryptsetup luksFormat /dev/sdc1

luksFormat is only used once.

To make this encrypted drive available as device on /dev/mapper use

cryptsetup luksOpen /dev/sdc1 SeagatePortable

The name SeagatePortable is an arbitrary…