# Provisioning First off the drive should be partitioned, possibly with `fdisk` or `cfdisk`. It should have atleast two partitions with one `EFI System` Partition and one `Linux filesystem` partition. It should look something like this: | Number of partition | Size | Type | |:-----:|:-----:|:-----: | | 1 | 1 to 2 GB or more | EFI System | | 2 | Rest of the drive | Linux filesystem | Then to create the filesystem of the efi partition. ``` # mkfs.fat -F 32 -n efi /dev/ ``` And the encrypted filesystem of the root partition. ``` # cryptsetup luksFormat /dev/ --type luks2 --label luks # cryptsetup open --type luks /dev/ root # mkfs.ext4 -L root /dev/mapper/root ``` Other filesystems can also be used but `ext4` is the standard for most linux distobutions.