IT

Secure your pendrive

Pendrives often contain customer, personal or other sensitive data. Now that GDPR is on us, it’s high time to protect those pendrives. The following example assumes that your pendrive is /dev/sdb, and you have a Linux partition on it (/dev/sdb1).

Format the device:
cryptsetup luksFormat /dev/sdb1

Open it:
cryptsetup luksOpen /dev/sdb1 pendrive

Create a filesystem:
mkfs.ext4 /dev/mapper/pendrive

Create a directory where we can mount it:
mkdir /mnt/pendrive

And finally mount the pendrive:
mount /dev/mapper/pendrive /mnt/pendrive