From 50f04d1a9aec7f42839f65f49c586dfc947efd62 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Robert <Robert@TryingToScale.com>
Date: Tue, 11 Nov 2025 20:43:18 -0500
Subject: [PATCH] steps

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 README.MD | 27 +++++++++++++++++++++------
 1 file changed, 21 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)

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 # LUKS-Encrypted Disk Images on Linux
 
 ## Using your package manager: (apt, etc...) install the following:
-## Requires: cryptsetup, losetup, mount, umount, findmnt, blkid
+## Requires: cryptsetup [Exmaple:$ sudo apt install cryptsetup]
+## As well as: losetup, mount, umount, findmnt, blkid
 ## Optional: VBoxManage (VirtualBox), virsh (libvirt)
 
 ## 1st Make a symbloic link to your bin path:
@@ -9,22 +10,36 @@
 sudo ln -s "$(pwd)/luks-img.sh" /usr/local/bin/
 ```
 
+## Make a folder for images and change into it.
+```
+mkdir -p "$HOME/DiskImages"
+cd "$HOME/DiskImages"
+```
+
 ## Quick Starts
 ```
 1) Create & mount a new 4 GB encrypted image:
 sudo luks-img.sh create --file mydisk.img --size 4G
 
-2) Open & mount an existing image:
-sudo luks-img.sh open --file mydisk.img --mount /mnt/luks
-
-3) Close (unmount, close mapper, detach loop):
+2) Close (unmount, close mapper, detach loop):
 sudo luks-img.sh close --file mydisk.img
 
-4) Backup the LUKS header:
+3) Open & mount an existing image:
+sudo luks-img.sh open --file mydisk.img --mount /mnt/mydisk
+
+4) Change DIR perms and change into it.
+sudo chown $USER:$USER /mnt/mydisk
+cd /mnt/mydisk
+
+NOW copy data to it, and use it...
+
+5) Backup the LUKS header:
 sudo luks-img.sh header-backup --file mydisk.img --out mydisk.header
 
 *) Add a new key using an existing keyfile:
 sudo luks-img.sh add-key --file mydisk.img --keyfile /path/newkey --existing-keyfile /path/oldkey
+
+When Done - Repeat step #2 to CLOSE
 ```
 
 ### If you want to add the image file to a VM: