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Can a shell script be a global command?
Yes it can be a global command.
There is no difference: an executable is an executable. It dose not matter what language an executable is written in (some languages can do some things that others can ...
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No thumbnails on Linux Mint?
Occasionally the thumbnailer gets stuck for me (see https://github.com/linuxmint/xplayer/issues/157, its probably xplayer being obsolete, sounds like in the future this will be fixed)
to "unstuck&...
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How do I encrypt the system disk with VeraCrypt on the command line on Linux?
First, you mention system encryption. It is important to note that Veracrypt supports system encryption for Windows only (see https://veracrypt.fr/en/Supported%20Systems%20for%20System%20Encryption....
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Encrypted external hard disk not recognized
When your hard disk is connected, open a command line and type sudo blkid to list all available partitions. Graphically, you can see them with GParted.
Locate the partition that you wish to mount.
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Can LUKS be used in a similar way as veracrypt?
Yes it can. You can encrypt a file (but you need to have it already created), treating it like a regular block device. Here is a test I did with a zeroed out file that I created with dd.
# dd if=/...
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Open VeraCrypt file with cryptsetup/LUKS
You are probably mistaking LUKS and cryptsetup. LUKS is a disk encryption format/metadata specification and cryptsetup is a tool (and library) for working with encrypted devices. It was first started ...
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"modprobe fuse" on WSL?
fuse is not supported in WSL 1
From WSL Issue #2869, a comment by therealkenc
No Linux modules on WSL because no Linux kernel in WSL.
fuse is compiled into WSL 2
From MSPoweruser article Windows ...
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"modprobe fuse" on WSL?
In WSL 2, the kernel used is a custom build by Microsoft. While it is compiled with support for modules, neither modules nor kernel headers are shipped, and as such, it's not practically possible to ...
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Disk space is not freed up when deleting files on a hard drive
I had this scenario run on me several times on different machines. I cannot guarantee you've stumbles on the same conditions I did, but I believe it's worth checking out.
You seem to be having two ...
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Disk space is not freed up when deleting files on a hard drive
Information taken from df in linux not showing correct free space after file removal, and combined with other answers, Google results, and experience.
Your mountain of commenters is only providing you ...
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Clonezilla won't mount encrypted with VeraCrypt partition
Unlike the header of a LUKS-encrypted partition, the header of a TrueCrypt/VeraCrypt-encrypted partition is also encrypted. So without knowing the encryption key, you should not be able to tell it ...
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Debian: cryptsetup fails to unlock volume since kernel 6.1.0-29
When you have a problem with an encrypted volume, it is strongly suggested to start from cloning the disk so that to ensure you don't make the problem even worse during troubleshooting or recovery.
As ...
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Disk space is not freed up when deleting files on a hard drive
I don't believe the veracrypt layer has anything whatsoever to do with the disk space issue. Veracrypt is a block layer that knows nothing about filesystems. Ext4 is a filesystem that sits on top of a ...
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How to mount a Veracrypt volume on FreeBSD?
I've made it.
The key to understand what's happend was to create 2 brand new VeraCrypt volumes.
one on Linux
one on FreeBSD
During the creation I noticed that Veracrypt offers different filesystems ...
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How to mount VeraCrypt or TrueCrypt volumes with the boot password
You can unlock truecrypt volumes and veracrypt too with your system boot (luks) password with at least Debian and Ubuntu. A Veracrypt volume with a PIM needs at least v254 of systemd for the veracrypt-...
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How to check an encrypted (Veracrypt) external (USB) disk that has a BTRFS file system?
If you want to check the disk for errors, you can use SMART:
smartctl -a /dev/sdd
or if you want GUI you can use GNOME Disks and the SMART Data & Self-Test menu option. (Not all external drives ...
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cryptsetup with veracrypt container: set encoding?
iocharset is a mount option, not something VeraCrypt specific, just add it to your mount command:
sudo mount -o iocharset=utf8 /dev/mapper/my_container /media/my_container
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Is creating VeraCrypt volumes from the command line less secure than using the GUI?
VeraCrypt has an equivalent mechanism in command line. When you create an encrypted volume, you can pass a file in option as a source of randomness with the --random-source option :
--random-source=...
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Multiple mounts of the same LVM
I did not get what you are trying to do and why, but to mount the same device on two different locations, you can use bind mounts, the content will be the same on both locations and CRUD operations ...
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How to recover an overwritten file from a mounted VeraCrypt encrypted disk?
The disk is encrypted so there's absolutely no point in looking on the disk for a plain text string. At best you need to search the mounted filesystem, as this is the decrypted layer, but any writes ...
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Possible missing algorithm in systemd-cryptsetup to mount a veracrypt volume
Nevermind. Found the mistake.
The password field in crypttab should not be set to /dev/null if using only a password, instead it needs to be set to none.
Fixed that, and it worked. Turns out most ...
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No thumbnails on Linux Mint?
In your case it might be the package libgdk-pixbuf2.0-bin missing.
First you can check if it's installed with:
dpkg -s libgdk-pixbuf2.0-bin
If not installed, then you can just install it:
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