On Mon, 13 Dec 2004 12:02:24 -0600, Brian Densmore [email protected] wrote:
The reason Linux found the drive is the filesystem is plain old vfat (fat16). Not real efficient, but it works with ...
Well, I'd have thought Linux would detect it regardless of choice of fs, afterall is should appear as a harddrive even if there is no fs on it.
Some USB vendors use proprietary encrypted filesystems. There's no way Linux is going to detect something that the developers have never seen before.
I'm not too concerned about using it in windows. I would like to keep that compatibility, but I'd like to be able to encrypt it, not that I have anything of value I plan on putting on it.
I'd keep it as FAT for maximum compatibility with anything, and do a loopback mount of a file on that filesystem to do the encryption.