Manually creating an encrypted partition without yast2 (fdisk, mkreiserfs, losetup, twofish, cryptotab)
Last modified on July 24, 2026 • 1 min read • 68 wordsThere is an article in the knowledge base, but here in short:
There is an article in the knowledge base, but here in short:
- Create the partition using fdisk or cfdisk (here sda1)
- losetup -e twofish256 /dev/loop0 /dev/sda1
- Type in the password for the encryption. It should be quite long in order to be safe.
- Create the filesystem with mkreiserfs /dev/loop0
- Mount the partition: mount -t reiserfs /dev/loop0 /media/cryptpart
- Put the entries into /etc/cryptotab: /dev/loop0 /dev/sda1 /media/cryptpart reiserfs twofish256 defaults