Encrypted LVM partition on software raid-1 with mdadm

At another post https://www.gonscak.sk/?p=201 I posted how to create raid1 software raid with mdadm in linux. Now I tried to add a crypted filesystem to this.

First, check, that we have working software raid:

sudo mdadm --misc --detail /dev/md0

/dev/md0:
           Version : 1.2
     Creation Time : Wed Aug 22 09:34:23 2018
        Raid Level : raid1
        Array Size : 1953381440 (1862.89 GiB 2000.26 GB)
     Used Dev Size : 1953381440 (1862.89 GiB 2000.26 GB)
      Raid Devices : 2
     Total Devices : 2
       Persistence : Superblock is persistent
     Intent Bitmap : Internal
       Update Time : Thu Aug 23 14:18:50 2018
             State : active 
    Active Devices : 2
   Working Devices : 2
    Failed Devices : 0
     Spare Devices : 0
Consistency Policy : bitmap
              Name : gw36:0  (local to host gw36)
              UUID : ded4f30e:1cfb20cb:c10b843e:df19a8ff
            Events : 3481
    Number   Major   Minor   RaidDevice State
       0       8       17        0      active sync   /dev/sdb1
       1       8       33        1      active sync   /dev/sdc1

Now, we synced drives and clean. It is time to encrypt.  If we have not loaded modules for encryption, load it:q

modprobe dm-crypt

Now create the volume with passphrase:

sudo cryptsetup --cipher=aes-xts-plain --verify-passphrase --key-size=512 luksFormat /dev/md0

And we can open it:

sudo cryptsetup  luksOpen /dev/md0 cryptdisk

Now we can create as many times a physical volume, volume group and logical volume.

sudo pvcreate /dev/mapper/cryptdisk
sudo vgcreate raid1 /dev/mapper/cryptdisk
sudo lvcreate --size 500G --name lv-home raid1

sudo pvs
  PV                     VG        Fmt  Attr PSize    PFree
  /dev/mapper/cryptdisk  raid1     lvm2 a--    <1,82t 1,33t
sudo vgs
  VG        #PV #LV #SN Attr   VSize    VFree
  raid1       1   1   0 wz--n-   <1,82t 1,33t
sudo lvs
  LV      VG        Attr       LSize
  lv-home raid1     -wi-ao---- 500,00g            

Next, we create a filesystem on this logical volume:

sudo mkfs.ext4 /dev/mapper/raid1-lv--home

And we can mount it:

sudo mount /dev/mapper/raid1-lv--home crypt-home/

Now we have an encrypted partition (disk) for our home directory.