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zuluMount cli howto

mhogomchungu edited this page Jun 4, 2015 · 16 revisions

zuluMount is a general purpose mounting tool that can mount unencrypted volumes and zuluCrypt supported encrypted volumes.

zuluMount should be the tool to use if all you want to do is mount and unmount volumes as its better tuned for this purpose.

1. Commands to unlock a volume.

zuluMount-cli -m -d /dev/sdc1 -z blabla -e ro -f /home/keyFile    
zuluMount-cli -m -d /dev/sdc1 -z blabla -e ro -F /home/keyFile0 -F /home/keyFile1@  
zuluMount-cli -m -d /dev/sdc1 -z blabla -e ro -p passphrase@  
zuluMount-cli -m -d /dev/sdc1 -z blabla -e ro -p passphrase -t vera@  
zuluMount-cli -m -d /dev/sdc1 -o 1024 -z blabla -e ro -p passphrase -t vera@  

Explanations for the above options.
-m : required option as a directive to mount a volume.
-d : required option that points to a device with an encrypted container.
-z : optional argument used to customize mount point path.
-e : optional argument for mount options. "ro" means "read only" and "rw" means "read and write".
-f : optional argument that points to a file to be used as a keyfile.
-p : optional argument that takes a passphrase from command line argument.
-t : -t "vcrypt" is required if a volume to be mounted is a VeraCrypt volume.
-G : optional argument that takes a name of a plugin to be used to get a passphrase.
-F : optional argument that takes multiple keyfiles when unlocking TrueCrypt or VeraCrypt volumes.
-o : optional argument that takes size in sectors of where a plain plain-dmcrypt volume is.

2. Commands to lock a volume.

zuluMount-cli -q -d /dev/sdc1

3. Commands to print volume properties of an unlocked volume.

zuluMount-cli -s -d /dev/sdc1

4. Command to print an expanded list of mounted volumes

zuluMount-cli -l

5. Command to use to get a list of system volumes.

zuluMount-cli -S

6. Command to use to get a list of non system volumes.

zuluMount-cli -N

7. Command to print a list of all volumes.

zuluMount-cli -A

documentations for more options to follow

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