Comments on: TrueCrypt Tutorial: Truly Portable Data Encryption

By: fpuga

fpuga — Sat, 16 Feb 2008 14:41:42 +0000

I note that with some kernel the system frozes while creating the file system. If this happens the solution is before type mkfs.ext3, do:

export MKE2FS_SYNC=1

You can probe with other values as 5 or 10 if the process of creating file system is so slow and the system don’t crash.

By: dan

dan — Wed, 16 Jan 2008 16:23:53 +0000

And recently it’s become known that using truecrypt -p or -k (the last is only a problem if you’re only using the keyfile) is entered in /var/log/auth.log in plaintext, so you run the risk of leaving your password lying around.

thx for otherwise good tut

By: gavin

gavin — Sun, 14 Oct 2007 21:58:51 +0000

… there should be two hyphens before ‘keyfile’.

By: gavin

gavin — Sun, 14 Oct 2007 21:55:40 +0000

“truecrypt — keyfile-create key.txt” should be “truecrypt –keyfile-create key.txt” (there is an extra space.)

By: walter

walter — Tue, 25 Sep 2007 06:58:50 +0000

really cool tutorial, but i’m having problems. what linux distro are you using? thanx

By: Wolf08

Wolf08 — Sat, 01 Sep 2007 22:40:41 +0000

You could create a /home//.profile that exists SOLELY to mount the truecrypt home partition on /home/.

By: Mountaingod

Mountaingod — Thu, 12 Jul 2007 12:45:00 +0000

Great tutorial, thanks. I’ve hit a snag though.

You say I can use Truecrypt to encrypt my /home/ partition, but as far as I can tell there’s no way to automount it. Automounting requires the use of ‘.profile’, but this file is situated *in the home folder*, which would of course be encrypted prior to mounting!

Has anybody found a way to use Truecrypt for automounted /home/partitions? Or a way to get round this problem?

By: Py

Py — Wed, 27 Jun 2007 18:22:50 +0000

If you have this message “device-mapper: reload ioctl failed: Invalid argument” at step “Volume mapping and creation of the filesystem”, you just need to reboot your OS.

I think this allow truecrypt to be loaded by the device-mapper. I’m using Ubuntu Feisty 7.04