Re: Encrypted Partition

[Colin Watson <cjwatson@debian.org>]

On Tue, Sep 17, 2002 at 05:06:00PM +0200, Xavier Sanz wrote:
> Mark Janssen wrote:
> >On Tue, 2002-09-17 at 16:13, Xavier Sanz wrote:
> >>I've tryied 'losetup -e twofish /dev/loop0 /dev/hda4'
> >>It seems to work
> >>But the problem itself come when i try to mount de partition...
> >>It seems not to have a filesystem assigned...
> >
> >I'm not an expert on this stuff, but...
> >
> >mount /dev/loop0 /mnt -t <fstype> ???
> >
> >What command are you using to mount, what is the error... (copy and
> >pasting here)
> 
> lusitania:/# mount -o loop,encryption=twofish /dev/loop0 /mnt
> Available keysizes (bits): 128 192 256
> Keysize: 256
> Password :
> mount: you must specify the filesystem type

You specify a filesystem type by adding '-t <fstype>' to the mount
command. For instance, if you expect /dev/hda4 to be an encrypted ext2
filesystem:

  mount -t ext2 -o loop,encryption=twofish /dev/loop0 /mnt

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Colin Watson                                  [cjwatson@flatline.org.uk]