Hai friend,
 Please try to execute the command as root user or use sudo command

On Wednesday, 23 July 2014 00:37:07 UTC+5:30, Niko Heeren wrote:
>
> Hello
>
> I am trying to encrypt a USB drive using the BBB and Debian wheezy (Kernel 
> 3.8.13-bone20).
>
> So the command I try is:
> cryptsetup --verbose --verify-passphrase luksFormat /dev/sda1
>
> However I get the following errors:
> Failure to communicate with kernel device-mapper driver.
> Check that device-mapper is available in the kernel.
> Cannot initialize device-mapper. Is dm_mod kernel module loaded?
> Command failed with code 38: Cannot initialize device-mapper. Is dm_mod 
> kernel module loaded?
>
> As far as my limited Linux knowledge tells me, the respective kernel 
> modules are not part of my kernel. Is that correct? Is there an easy way to 
> make this work? Or do you see alternatives to encrypt USB drives?
>
> Thanks!
>

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