On Thu, Dec 2, 2010 at 11:12 PM, Shawn <[email protected]> wrote: > I'm looking for any decent links/how-to's for full disk encryption. > > I have a new 2TB drive connected via USB. Initially I want to set up that > entire drive with encrypted storage. I've downloaded/installed Truecrypt, > but I'm not sure if I have the process quite right. Do I first need to > setup a partition table and/or format the partitions? > > When I get more comfortable with the disk encryption, I'll likely wipe that > drive and use it in my desktop - possibly with full encryption there. > > A Google search finds old stuff, or other places that throw around a lot of > theory/crypto terms. I just want a step by step guide - I can look up the > specifics if I'd like. Oh, and I'd rather learn how to do this all from the > command line if possible... If it helps, I'm running kubuntu 10.04 at the > moment.
There was a letter in Issue 138 of Linux format about TrueCrypt. The long & short of it, the guy wanted an encryption solution that could be used btwn windows & linux & be portable. The suggestions was TrueCrypt & carrying around the portable version of it for both OS's on the usb stick. One of the tiems in the response was that when you are setting it up you can either encrypt the whole partition or you can encrypt a volume within a partition, thereby leaving room for unencrypted & encrypted storage. I don't believe you have to create or format the partitions first, but that might depend on the choice you make.I believe teh software will format the drive or portion of drive for you. I could be wrong though. I hope this was what you are looking for. _______________________________________________ clug-talk mailing list [email protected] http://clug.ca/mailman/listinfo/clug-talk_clug.ca Mailing List Guidelines (http://clug.ca/ml_guidelines.php) **Please remove these lines when replying
