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Re: loading truecrypt from the command line



On 15/03/2013, Zenaan Harkness <zen@freedbms.net> wrote:
> On 3/15/13, Sharon Kimble <skimble04@gmail.com> wrote:
>> i am loading truecrypt from the command line with an alias of "tc" ..
>> alias tc='/home/boztu/truecrypt --fs-options=users,uid=$(id
>> -u),gid=$(id -g),fmask=0113,dmask=0002 --mount
>> /home/boztu/Documents/basket' and it comes back with 'mount: wrong fs
>> type, bad option, bad superblock on /dev/mapper/truecrypt1,  missing
>> codepage or helper program, or other error  In some cases useful info
>> is found in syslog - try dmesg | tail  or so'
>>
>> How do I get round this please so that I can load it from the command
>> line?
>
> I haven't done that for a long time. Looks like it could be just an
> "underlying" mount-lib problem.
>
> Can you mount using the gui?
>
> Are you able to test in some other way?
>
> Zenaan
>
I can load it okay from the menu item I created, which points to
'/home/boztu/truecrypt' but using the alias it fails everytime. Very
reproducible! Its just from the commandline or alias that it fails,
for some reason.

Hope this helps?
Sharon.
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