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Creating an encrypted drive with cryptsetup
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Ensure to select the proper drive

fdisk -l
lsblk

Setup encryption

Assuming sdX is the device to encrypt

cryptsetup luksFormat --type luks2 /dev/sdX

Format device

Re-attach disk so mapper is created

mkfs.ext4 /dev/mapper/luks-xyz
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