Mounting VeraCrypt containers at boot

VeraCrypt is my favorite encryption software.

Setting up automount at boot is straightforward thanks to Cryptsetup.

Assuming that we have already created an ext4 formatted VeraCrypt volume: /volume1_veracrypt and a key file: /key1

To verify that the unlocking is going to work run:

sudo cryptsetup open \
	/volume1_veracrypt \
	--type tcrypt \
	--veracrypt \
	--key-file /key1 \
	veracrypt1

If all works there should be an entry in /dev/mapper named veracrypt1

Add entry in /etc/crypttab

veracrypt1 /volume1_veracrypt /dev/null tcrypt-veracrypt,tcrypt-keyfile=/key1

Add entry in /etc/fstab

/dev/mapper/veracrypt1 /mnt/veracrypt1 ext4 nofail 0 2