Technical requirements
For the exercise in this chapter, you will need a physical or virtual machine that you can (re)install Linux onto to complete these tasks. Administrative (root) access is implied. You will be required to create some custom partitions/filesystems. You will need a fresh installation of a Linux system with the regular filesystems you may have regularly created. Also create a 500 MiB XFS LUKS encrypted partition, labeled data3, with the mount point set as /data3. Use CreatePass as the initial key passphrase. Root or sudo access is mandatory. I cannot highlight enough how important it is that this prerequisite is done as specified – not doing this will impact your ability to easily complete this chapter’s exercises.
