USB Flash Drive Encryption with LUKS and dm-crypt - BitLocker Alternative for Linux

USB flash drives have become common day to data transportation media today. Windows supports disk drive encryption with BitLocker. LUKS with dm-crypt can be used used an alternative to BitLocker in Linux. Following steps can be used encrypt USB drive. Flash drive in encrypted in Gnome desktop in fedora. It was tested and working on KDE,Unity and Cinnamon with Ubuntu and Linux Mint.

How to make your USB drive bootable for Fedora 18 DVD ISO

Fedora 18

After more than year of usage of Fedora 16, I decided to install Fedora 18. Since my DVD ROM started to give me problems few months ago, I decided to install Fedora 18 from USB drive. I had good experience with installing Ubuntu from USB drive. I used UNetbootin to make USB drives bootable. I tried same thing for Fedora 18 DVD. USB drive became bootable. But installer failed with "failed to mount /dev/root". Same problem with Fedora Live USB Creator.