I Encrypt All My USB Drives with LUKS.

I show you how to setup an encrypted USB drive with a LUKS partition and cryptsetup. I wrote a script to automatically decrypt and mount drives on the fly too which does this automatically. Get it here:

`mounter`. For mounting drives (encrypted, normal and Android phones):
`unmounter`. For unmounting. Also closing decryption of drives for safety:

Might do more on drive encryption, including full disk encryption later.

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[lelwani]

holy crap a Luke Smith computer video in 2023

[KulKulKula]

Wow, Luke droppin vids like crazy, no break from consooming for us

[ntj]

Luke is so chad he has his own format.

[msor]

Luke is encrypting drives and using btrfs, 2023 is gonna be a really interesting year.

[shrizza]

Luke between writing a 30-or-so-byte file and unmounting: *sync*
Me: This guy has been through some shit.

[mskiptr]

I'd probably make a small FAT32 partition with some "where to return if found".txt info. And to keep windows from reformatting the drive as soon as someone plugs it into that monstrosity

[mashpotato]

I would genuinely watch a video series of Luke Smith installing and maintaining a Gentoo system.

[dandan-gfjk]

8:06 lukes academic field of study makes moments like these 100x funnier

[wolverine]

Luckily, Luke's LUKS looks like it kills leaks. Like!

[bmmartin]

'Trust me it works' ~Luke Smith, Feb 1st 2023

[TheSolidSnakeOil]

Timely video. I just started encrypting everything. And I have to say, cfdisk is way easier to use and less likely overwhelm novices users.

[NoLoginIdea]

4:04 shot of moonshine straight from the jar, like a chad.

[ajaxmaxxer]

I can't wait for the Artix installation video !

[saksaelectronicsconsulting]

LUKS is great. I have been using it for 3 years now, on both USB drives and SSD partitions.

[Svyatoclav]

It LUKS like we need a new video about FULL Artix installation with drives encryption and further setup EXACTLY like yours (and also dwm)... But I still will install it with Windows in dualboot tho

[thschool]

you dont need to encrypt fake partition when doing fde. you can just directly encrypt /dev/sdx without having partition table on it. partition comes later in the /dev/mapper/ as you pointed out

[crnchp]

Luke you are amazing dude, this is the exact thing I needed help with. Literally as we speak I'm figuring out disk management and luks stuff after not being able to get in my bios due to lvm bugging out the shortcut time-frame realised I knew like nothing about disk management. Your timing and accuracy is impeccable major props and thank you dude.

[Chris-onbt]

Would apperciate a video on why you choose BTRfs. Since EXT4 is the goto on a lot Linux distro would be curious your reasoning for using it.

[cunjoz]

"Hey kids..." I see you're a cultured attendee of the Sam O'Nella Academy as well

[mpkoks]

Nice video. You could also talk about preparing the drive filling it with /dev/zero first so previous data cannot be accessed in first days of use.