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TrueCrypt Tutorial: Truly Portable Data Encryption TrueCrypt is a free software that encrypts data “on-the-fly”. Right now the newest version released is version 4.3. You can create an encrypted hard drive, a separate partition or a directory with TrueCrypt. It doesn’t simply encrypt the content of files, but their names and the names of the directories they are in as well. Moreover there is no way to check the size of the encrypted directory/HDD/partition. TrueCrypt is available for Windows and Linux.
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truecrypt -- keyfile-create key.txt
There is a space between "--" and "keyfile-create". Correct it please ;)
Ok, this mistake has been corrected. Thanks a lot!
For TrueCrypt 5.1, the above works, but when the volume is first mounted you MUST force it to load without a filesystem (I guess TrueCrypt now automatically attempts to mount the filesystem, even if it doesn't yet exist). So:
$ sudo truecrypt /dev/sde1
becomes
$ sudo truecrypt --filesystem=none /dev/sde1
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nice Information.
But I think it would be better to mount an USB-Device in fstab by UUID
you can find out the UIDD as link to /dev/uba1 (in your example) with this command
:~$ ls -l /dev/disk/by-uuid/ | grep uba1
and in /etc/fstab
UUID=<uuid_of_uba1> /mnt/pendrive auto defaults 0 0
the big advantage is the irelevance if it is uba, sda1 or sde1...
I'm not sure if this works in every linux.
Sorry for the missing code-window. I didn'n know how to insert it.
Great information.
Thanks
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