Installing veracrypt on Ubuntu/Mint (Linux)

Open a console (terminal) and run the following commands to add the repository for veracrypt:

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:unit193/encryption sudo apt update sudo apt install veracrypt

installing Ubuntu 17.04 with encrypted home makes boot delays

the problem is when installing Ubuntu with encrypted home, 17.04 creates a swapfile instead of a swap partition like previous versions, then the installer writes a faulty config file.

In particular, ecryptfs-setup-swap puts in /etc/crypttab a line like this:

cryptswap1 UID=XXXXXXXX /dev/urandom swap,offset=1024,cipher=aes-xts-plain64


(like there were a swap partition with UID=XXXXXXXX) while with a swapfile it should put the following line:

cryptswap1 /swapfile /dev/urandom swap,offset=1024,cipher=aes-xts-plain64

If you manually change that line and reboot, you get rid of the problem - before rebooting, check also that your /etc/fstab file ends with:

/swapfile               none  swap  sw  0  0
/dev/mapper/cryptswap1  none  swap  sw  0  0

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Because of this error Ubuntu spends a long time waiting for the swap.