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Anybody know a guide or reading material on learning how to encrypt hard drives ?

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[–] liliumstar@lemmy.dbzer0.com 30 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Check out veracrypt. It's free and easy to use.

[–] BiomedOtaku@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Since you got your system already installed, veracrypt is probably the way you want to go.

[–] aedyr@lemmy.ca 22 points 2 years ago (2 children)

Depends on what sort of underlying file system you want to use on the drive. For Linux filesystems (ext4, btrfs, zfs etc), here's a good start: https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Dm-crypt

For NTFS, BitLocker is already baked in to Windows.

[–] idkman@lemmy.dbzer0.com 9 points 2 years ago

I won't really trust Bitlocker coming from Microsoft.

[–] EddyBot@feddit.de 2 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

Bitlocker is only redumentary included in the cheaper Windows "Home" versions
only the "Pro" version actually includes proper Bitlocker tools which is frankly a pretty stupid move

[–] elscallr@lemmy.world 11 points 2 years ago

Look into the dm-crypt Linux kernel module.

[–] hinterlufer@lemmy.world 5 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Probably not what you're looking for but Linux Mint has the option to encrypt your drive when you first install it. It's as easy as clicking "yes" and setting a password.

[–] amanneedsamaid@sopuli.xyz 5 points 2 years ago (2 children)

Last I checked, Mint only allows you to encrypt your home partition. I know that Fedora supports full disk encryption via a toggle at installation.

[–] drunkensailor@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

i think endeavour lets yuo do FDE from the gui installer also but yeah fedora is fucking great

[–] neutron@thelemmy.club 2 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Perhaps you had another partition with an operating system on the same disk, which prevented full disk encryption? If installing on an empty disk, most distros offer full disk encryption by default.

[–] amanneedsamaid@sopuli.xyz 2 points 2 years ago (1 children)

That definitely wasnt the case when I was last installing Mint, as I don't dual boot and always select the option to overrite the entire disk during installation. The way I remember it, it says "[checkbox] Encrypt your home partition" with no other options. Not sure if there is an equivalent to Fedora's settings or an advanced mode (like blivet-gui) to setup full disk encryption manually.

[–] 20gramsWrench@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 2 years ago

when you choose the partitions you want, there is a little checkbox asking you if you want to encrypt your hard drive

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