Category: Linux Mint
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Encrypt secondary disk – Linux
To set up cryptographic volumes, you need to back up the data first and restore data after the encryption is setup. rsync -Pav <source/> <backup_destination/> Once the backup is completed, install cryptsetupsudo apt install cryptsetup Create the encrypted partitionsudo cryptsetup –verbose –verify-passphrase luksFormat <device_name>Provide passphrase once prompted, you could use fdisk -l to find the…
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Upgrading Linux Mint 13 (maya) to Linux Mint 14 (nadia).
Take a backup of the current sources.list, preferably make a full backup of the system. Edit the sources.list file, replace the occurrences of maya with nadia and precise with quantal. $ vi /etc/sources.list :%s/maya/nadia/g :%s/precise/quantal/g Resulting file may look like. deb http://packages.linuxmint.com/ nadia main upstream import deb http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ quantal main restricted universe multiverse deb http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/…