On Sat, Jul 4, 2020, at 04:23, Dale wrote: > Now that I have a spare drive, I want to encrypt it and have a mount point > for it, /home/dale/documents for example. What I'd like to do, when I login > in, it asks me for the encryption password and then mounts it. When I log > out, it reverses. I'm not doing all of /home because I want to separate some > info. I may do it later.
I would use LUKS (warning: all data on the spare drive will be lost): 0. Partition the spare drive: parted /dev/sdx 1. Format the drive's partition with LUKS: cryptsetup luksFormat /dev/sdxn 2. Decrypt the LUKS partition: cryptsetup luksOpen /dev/sdxn documents 3. Create a filesystem on the decrypted partition: mke2fs -t ext4 -m 0 /dev/mapper/documents 4. Add the new filesystem to /etc/fstab (use the UUID for easier matching) 5. Mount the filesystem: mount /home/dale/documents In order to close the filesystem, you need the following steps: 1. Unmount the filesystem: umount /home/dale/documents 2. Lock the LUKS partition: cryptsetup luksClose documents Since you use KDE you may try Vault instead, but I haven't tested that personally. -- https://fturco.net/
