I strongly recommend you read through this guide at least once before starting. I can be reached via the contact form on the 'About' page of this website or via the comments below. Please let me know if I missed anything or you have any questions. This is a fairly involved process, but I have done my best to document each detail. We use LVM and the native encryption routines included in Ubuntu 8.10 to encrypt all partitions except for a small boot partition that never contains any data. I put quotes around full in the title because technically the whole disk isn't encrypted. Finally, if you want to be notified of updates to this page, subscribe to my RSS feed here.Make sure to use 200MB for the boot partition.) There is a PDF version of this article available here.This is a step-by-step guide showing how to create a encrypted bootable Backtrack 4 USB thumb drive.īefore we get started, here are a few housekeeping items: If you were working from the R1 version of the how-to, you can still see it here. Hat tip to Andrew Suffield for the final bit to make the new way work. Finally, there are now two ways to configure the system to use the encrypted volume. We will use ext3 to build it, but mount as ext2 to disable journaling. This means we don't create a swap partition and change the root partition to mount as ext2 instead of ext3. Some other changes are a result of testing for speed and the desire to reduce writes to our USB drive to extend its life.
I have also removed all references to Backtrack Final. However, I have gone ahead and increased the boot partition to 200MB just to make it an even number. UPDATE: Everything that applies to R1, applies to R2.
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