Re: flash drive encryption between different OS's
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On Fri, Jun 05, 2009 at 04:52:40PM -0700, David Christensen wrote:
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> I recently went down the same path and settled on LUKS on Linux and
> FreeOTFE on Windows XP. I wrote a couple of HOWTO's that should get you
> started:
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> http://www.holgerdanske.com/node/455
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> http://www.holgerdanske.com/node/456
>
>
> I later bought a 1.5 TB external drive for backup images. I ran into
> two limitations: FAT32 doesn't support files larger than 4 GB (I have
> *.avi files larger than that) and Linux cannot write to NTFS partitions.
> So, I ended up creating an ext2/LUKS partition on Linux, moving the
> drive to Windows, mounting the partition with FreeOTFE, and formatting
> the partition with NTFS. The backup images are created on Windows by
> Perl scripts and GNU tools on Cygwin, and I can move the drive to Linux
> and read the images if I need to.
I your partition example a go and I think that will work nicely for
now at least. I saw the option in FreeOTFE to have it install to the
disk. Carrying the decryption software with you would be a bonus.
I went back and made sdb1 = 10M FAT32 , and the difference to sdb2.
Then I followed your example again for sdb2 but I wasn't able to get
windows to mount sdb2. Windows decided to mount sdb1 and ignore sdb2. I
forget the exact error but something about assigning a drive letter. OT
for this list, but it's something I'll keep digging into.
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Daryl Styrk
Naples FL, USA
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