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I am trying to create a truecrypt partition with ext3 file system, but it seems impossible.. I can only choose FAT (fat32) from the gui and no information about this in the documentation. Doing some googling I find some ways of doing this but all are outdated and doesnt work for me.
Any archers with truecrypt and file system experience?
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what program(druid) to partition disk you use?
try to use:
cfdisk
Last edited by piotrk (2008-09-17 08:46:46)
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i dont think u understand the issue..
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sorry I poorly apprehend:)
but what is the problem?
you read this?
http://www.mepis.org/docs/en/index.php/Truecrypt
Last edited by piotrk (2008-09-17 16:22:12)
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I think he does: afaik truecrypt maps the partition to some place in /dev/mapper, so you should be able to cfdisk /dev/mapper/partition
Never tried though, as I sadly use ntfs for my data
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Here a short guide, I'm using -t option but you dont need to.
Click yourself through the dialog, select filesystem none.
truecrypt -t -c
Map device with..
truecrypt -t /dev/sdxx --filesystem=none
to see which device is mapped to which loop type..
truecrypt -t -l
create filesystem..
mkfs.ext3 /dev/loopx
then mount it with..
mount /dev/loopx /mount/point
and you are done.
Next time you reboot you can just mount it by typing..
truecrypt -t /dev/sdxx /mount/point
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I'd like to use ext3 instead of vfat on a truecrypt **container** (not partition), but since it's not officially supported, isn't there the risk of some incompatibility of some sort?
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Try the following and see what happens: create a container, mount it, format it, unmount it, remount it, post the results
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