Show progress during dd copy

kill -USR1  <pid of dd>

LVM crypt disks on Linux/AWS

1. dd if=/dev/urandom of=/keys/xvdm.key bs=1024 count=4
2. dd if=/dev/urandom of=/keys/xvdn.key bs=1024 count=4
3. cryptsetup --verbose -y luksFormat /dev/xvdm /keys/xvdm.key
4. cryptsetup --verbose -y luksFormat /dev/xvdn /keys/xvdn.key
5. cryptsetup luksOpen /dev/xvdm cryptm --key-file /etc/xvdm.key
6. cryptsetup luksOpen /dev/xvdn cryptn --key-file /etc/xvdn.key
7. pvcreate /dev/mapper/cryptm /dev/mapper/cryptn
8. Add entries to /etc/crypttab for reboots and test somehow
1. cryptm /dev/xvdm /etc/xvdm.key luks
2. cryptn /dev/xvdn /etc/xvdn.key luks

Complete LVM setup and add entries to /etc/fstab.

Hint: don't make one, single typo...ever.

2G swap file

1. dd if=/dev/zero of=/swapfile bs=1M count=2048
2. mkswap /swapfile
3. swapon /swapfile