Comments on: Encrypted USB drive in Ubuntu

By: Ubuntu Storage Medium Encryption Script | chrisspenblog

Ubuntu Storage Medium Encryption Script | chrisspenblog — Thu, 08 Jul 2010 22:44:03 +0000

[...] flash drives, to protect personal data in the event they’re lost or stolen, and I found a few good write-ups on the subject using tools available in Ubuntu. Although the current distribution of [...]

By: Chris

Chris — Wed, 23 Jun 2010 15:32:00 +0000

Great guide. Your instructions worked nearly perfectly. The only problem I ran into was that the mounted drive had root-only permissions, which is fixed with: sudo chown -R myuser:myuser /dev/usbdevicemountpoint

After that, Gnome's default mount icon was fully accessible.

By: Klass Pappa

Klass Pappa — Fri, 11 Jun 2010 20:45:23 +0000

I tryed this, everything is ok. Exept I cant copy files to the drive, Access denied!

I run Ubuntu 9.04

By: Free Your Inner Penguin » Blog Archive » Drive Encryption

Free Your Inner Penguin » Blog Archive » Drive Encryption — Sat, 27 Mar 2010 19:38:48 +0000

[...] Encrypted USB drive in Ubuntu Posted by Jacob Emcken [...]

By: A. James Lewis (netlore) 's status on Monday, 19-Oct-09 14:51:21 UTC - Identi.ca

A. James Lewis (netlore) 's status on Monday, 19-Oct-09 14:51:21 UTC - Identi.ca — Mon, 19 Oct 2009 14:51:39 +0000

[...] http://emcken.dk/weblog/archives/164-encrypted-usb-drive-in-ubuntu.html a few seconds ago from Gwibber in context [...]

By: Preben

Preben — Thu, 27 Aug 2009 10:47:10 +0000

Just a note. If you encrypt a USB stick you should use ext2 and not ext3 as the latter is very slow on sticks due to the journalling system.

By: Jacob Emcken

Jacob Emcken — Mon, 11 May 2009 19:54:09 +0000

@Malignus

If you done all the steps I must admit I don't know what you could have done wrong. Does the error persist even after a reboot?

By: Malignus

Malignus — Fri, 08 May 2009 18:36:28 +0000

n00b-ish question:

I ran through all the steps which all cleared without compunction, but when I re-inserted the drive, and it prompted me for my passphrase (which I provided), it seemingly mounted but is inaccessible to me. It populates as a device but generates the error "Unable eto set up crypto device Error org.freedesktop.Hal.Device.Volume.Crypto.SetupError /dev/sdc is already setup?". What have I done wrong?

By: Jacob Emcken

Jacob Emcken — Fri, 24 Apr 2009 13:14:58 +0000

The mount point Ubuntu chooses is based on the label of the filesystem. Which means that if the label is ie. "WD 1TB" it will be mounted in /media/WD 1TB

Since the label cannot be read before the partition is actually decrypted I'm not sure Ubuntu can figure out to mount encrypted partitions using labels.

I'm not aware of anything you can do to disable auto mounting of encrypted partitions.

By: david

david — Thu, 23 Apr 2009 16:18:04 +0000

Anyway of changing the default path it mounts the encrypted drive to, because now it mounts the drive to /media/disk which I need for something else.

Or maybe is there a way of disabling the auto-mount pass-phrase prompt, 'cause then I could manually mount it to a better path.