debian man page for luksformat

Query: luksformat

OS: debian

Section: 8

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LUKSFORMAT(8)						      Administrative commands						     LUKSFORMAT(8)

NAME
luksformat - Create and format an encrypted LUKS device
SYNOPSIS
luksformat [-t fstype] device [ mkfs options ]
DESCRIPTION
luksformat is a wrapper around cryptsetup and mkfs which provides an easy interface for creating an encrypted device that follows the LUKS standard and for putting a file system onto the encrypted device. The default file system is vfat since that is most commonly used on removable devices. However, you can specify any available file system with the -t option.
SEE ALSO
cryptsetup(8), mkfs(8)
AUTHOR
This program was written by Martin Pitt <martin.pitt@ubuntu.com>. 2011-09-19 LUKSFORMAT(8)
Related Man Pages
mkfs(8) - suse
mkfs(8) - redhat
mount.crypt(8) - debian
systemd-cryptsetup-generator(8) - mojave
mount.crypt(8) - suse
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