CRYPTMOUNT-SETUP(8)

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version 6.4.0 · 4 versions
, in ubuntu stonking

✨ CRYPTMOUNT-SETUP — the cryptmount-setup girlies' guide ✨

okay so bestie, welcome to cryptmount-setup, section 8 of the manual (user commands, iykyk) 💅 this little icon is literally gonna hold your hand while you set up a brand new encrypted filesystem. no cap.

🌸 NAME 🌸

cryptmount-setup — setup a new encrypted filesystem 🎀

🦋 SYNOPSIS 🦋

cryptmount-setup

that's it. no flags, no args, just vibes. she takes zero arguments and she slays. periodt.

💖 DESCRIPTION 💖

so cryptmount-setup is the bestie that helps you with the initial configuration of an encrypted filesystem — the kind that gets managed by cryptmount (8) afterwards. think of her as the setup wizard with main character energy. ✨

here's the tea: if you run her as the superuser, she'll let you create a basic LUKS-encrypted filesystem inside an ordinary file. literally a whole encrypted filesystem, chillin' in a regular file. iconic behaviour, honestly. 🔥

and she's not gonna make you guess, because she asks interactively — you get to pick the:

  • size of the filesystem 📏
  • location of the filesystem 📍
  • mount-point 🗂️
  • ownership 👑

...all selected interactively, all your call, no guessing games. 🫶

ngl, this is just the basic-girl path though. if you want the advanced options — the fancy stuff — go read the manual page for cryptmount (8) or cmtab (5). those are where the deep lore lives. 😭

🌈 SEE ALSO 🌈

  • cryptmount (8) 👑
  • cmtab (5) 📜

cryptmount is (C)Copyright 2005-2026, RW Penney, and is supplied with NO WARRANTY. zero warranty, none, nada — she's giving it to you as-is, bestie. 😭

Licencing terms are as described in the file "COPYING" within the cryptmount source distribution. go read it fr fr. 📖

okay and that's the whole page, you ate that. 🍓

this was cryptmount version 6.4.0, dated 2023-01-07, and it came to you straight from the CRYPTMOUNT-SETUP(8) manual page. mwah, go encrypt something 💅✨🦋

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