cryptsetup on lvm on Ubuntu Feisty
Last modified on July 24, 2026 • 1 min read • 105 wordsI wanted to encrypt my Documents.
I wanted to encrypt my Documents. My home folder is on a logical volume. So I made some space by removing another logical volume and creating a new one, which gets encrypted by cryptsetup. Here are the commands:
- lvdisplay Display all logical volumes on the system
- lvremove defaultvolumegroup/data Remove the logical volume “data” from the volume group “defaultvolumegroup”
- lvcreate -L 53.66G –name data defaultvolumegroup Create the logical volume “data” with a size of 53.66 GB in the volume group “defaultvolumegroup”
- cryptsetup create cryptodata /dev/mapper/defaultvolumegroup-data Create the encrypted device “/dev/mapper/cryptodata”
- mkfs.ext3 /dev/mapper/cryptodata Format the device with the ext3 file system
- mount /dev/mapper/cryptodata /home/jeltsch/data Mount the device