First off the drive should be partitioned, possibly with fdisk. 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/ lv0 ``` Now to create a new LVM volume group: ``` # vgcreate lv0 /dev/mapper/lv0 ``` To create partitions inside the volume group: ``` # lvcreate --name root -L 64G lv0 # lvcreate --name home -l 100%FREE lv0 ``` To create the filesystems on the logical partitions: ``` # mkfs.ext4 -L root /dev/mapper/lv0-root # mkfs.ext4 -L home /dev/mapper/lv0-home ``` Other filesystems can also be used but `ext4` is the standard for most linux distrobutions. Other sizes for the partitions can also be used depending on the needs of the user.