{"id":224,"date":"2011-05-17T08:01:36","date_gmt":"2011-05-17T12:01:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.digitalundercurrents.com\/blog\/?p=224"},"modified":"2011-05-17T08:01:36","modified_gmt":"2011-05-17T12:01:36","slug":"partition-encryption-in-linux","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.digitalundercurrents.com\/blog\/?p=224","title":{"rendered":"Partition Encryption in Linux"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Last week, I started getting errors from the external hard drive that I use for backing up my workstation. Since this is probably the sign of an impending failure, I ordered a new one immediately. Also, since external hard drives are lightweight and easy to steal, both the replacement and the drive being replaced are encrypted to protect their data.<\/p>\n<p>In Linux, the most common solution for drive encryption is a combination of dm-crypt and LUKS. If you&#8217;re interested in setting up an encrypted drive yourself, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.digitalundercurrents.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/Partition_Encryption_in_Linux.pdf\">you might find this walkthrough useful<\/a> &#8211; I wrote it a few years ago, and still refer to it every time I need to refresh my memory on the command syntax for working with encrypted filesystems under Linux.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last week, I started getting errors from the external hard drive that I use for backing up my workstation. Since this is probably the sign of an impending failure, I ordered a new one immediately. Also, since external hard drives are lightweight and easy to steal, both the replacement and the drive being replaced are [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-224","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-tools"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.digitalundercurrents.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/224","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.digitalundercurrents.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.digitalundercurrents.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.digitalundercurrents.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.digitalundercurrents.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=224"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.digitalundercurrents.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/224\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.digitalundercurrents.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=224"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.digitalundercurrents.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=224"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.digitalundercurrents.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=224"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}