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   Khurram Wadee ✅ (mkwadee@mastodon.org.uk)'s status on Thursday, 06-Mar-2025 02:42:02 JST Khurram Wadee ✅

   I managed to create an #encrypted #Linux #Filesystem on a #USBStick. The reason I wanted this is that I want to back up some directories, which contain secure information and also #NTFS, the one that comes on most drives, doesn’t know how to handle #SymbolicLinks properly. I don’t need or want to share the stick with any non-Linux machines.

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     Khurram Wadee ✅ (mkwadee@mastodon.org.uk)'s status on Thursday, 06-Mar-2025 02:42:03 JST Khurram Wadee ✅

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     Anyway, I was having big issues with trying to create an #EXT4 file system and the same problem was occurring on multiple devices, indicating that it wasn’t the device that was at fault and I concluded that it must be something to do with #mkfs.ext4.

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     Khurram Wadee ✅ (mkwadee@mastodon.org.uk)'s status on Thursday, 06-Mar-2025 02:42:06 JST Khurram Wadee ✅

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     So today I tired #mkfs.btrfs and this works. I was using #gparted, which can’t create #encrypted file systems and so I created a blank (cleared) one, used #cryptsetup to create the #encryption on the device, and then created the brtrfs file system.

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