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Most of the time, having a journal for ext3 and ext4 partitions is pretty useful. Nevertheless, you can prevent creating a journal by adding the option ^has_journal. For example: mkfs

“parted” is a replacement for “fdisk” of Linux.  It can handle disks larger than 2 TB.  Issue this command to launch “parted” where /dev/sdL is the disk you want to

Unmount the partition umount /mnt Unmap the partition cryptsetup luksClose securebackup

Map the partition cryptsetup luksOpen /dev/sdXN securebackup Mount the partition mount /dev/mapper/securebackup /mnt

To setup partition encryption on Ubuntu, perform the following steps: Install the required software apt-get install cryptsetup For more security, erase the partition you want to encrypt with one of