This program is a simple high-level wrapper for creating and accessing LUKS encrypted filesystems.

Filesystems can be stored in any block device supported by the kernel. For convenience, filesystems stored in regular files are also supported transparently by using loopback devices.

Allocation (and reallocation) of the underlying storage layer in which filesystems are created (e.g., LVM logical volume, hard disk partition, loopfile) is up to the user and is beyond the scope of this program.

creating and accessing a loopback LUKS filesystem:

dd if=/dev/zero of=./loopfs bs=1M count=10
luks-mkfs ./loopfs

luks-mount ./loopfs ./mnt
luks-umount ./mnt

creating and accessing a LUKS filesystem on a hard drive partition:

cfdisk /dev/sdb # create partition /dev/sdb4
luks-mkfs /dev/sdb4

luks-mount /dev/sdb4 /mnt/sdb4
luks-umount /mnt/sdb4