Got it, thanks.
Just so you know, I noticed that after the drive being plugged for a while,
the option for safely removing the drive disappears :(
Gotta go through gnome-disks to stop the disks from spinning for a while
after unmounting. I suppose this should be a bug report to whoever keeps
taking care
Ok, so I ended up stopping the formatting, and did a new one (but fast this
time) on the whole drive, and did it again with LUKS+ext4. Plus it's a brand
new drive, so it should be more than fine.
It's troublesome that it keeps going forever though, and also that there's no
progress
It's been 5 days now, without still no indication of how long is left for
formatting/encrypting.
It's basically this issue:
https://askubuntu.com/questions/19049/disk-utility-running-for-a-long-time
Any idea?
For now I'll leave it running.
For now, it is unlocked, and when I try to lock
So you would extend A with B, and use C as the backup area for both.
It can work of course, but in my situation, you must imagine C holding
already nearly 3to of data. That still should leave enough for backup, but
I'd rather keep C unplugged as often as possible, so that on A, there's only
Well, I'll tell you how it went in 3 days then :)
Truth is I don't know, hack. My knowledge of disk encryption is quite
limited. Hopefully someone more experienced will be able to reassure you.
Thanks SuperTramp, it's pretty much what I did (luckily!).
It's just that, in that dark grey window showing the partition, I used to
have one, but starting the wipeout+encryption, I have now two.
Though, which is reassuring, both have the same size, so that still makes it
one partition.
I
hi hack mate!
To encrypt a stick I used this guide, which is very clear.
http://www.howtogeek.com/115955/how-to-quickly-encrypt-removable-storage-devices-with-ubuntu/
I have a hard time finding tutorials about using gnome-disk-utility (aka
gnome-disks, also disks I think).
There's one small thing that worries me a little, it's that at first I had
one unique partition, and now I have two.
It might be normal since here
Thanks Sasaki, definitely worth knowing.
About encrypting an external drive, it seems gnome-disks is a tool to use,
not GParted (that previous link I posted was about an OS install):
https://help.ubuntu.com/community/EncryptedFilesystemsOnRemovableStorage
Just to say there is a preacution while formatting SSD hardrives, if you plan
to buy one. Mine is broken since I formatted it in fat32. Now it takes five
hours to copy 2Go of date from the disk to the computer.
I've read somewhere you must format that type of disk with care, letting some
Ah sorry, I didn't explain properly:
A is my PC HDD, with the OS within, and some data of course.
B (as in "Backup) is the external backup drive, either the same size, or a
bit larger than A. It's smaller than C though.
C is the huge HDD used for storage, unplugged from the PC most of the
Yes, it's strictly a data external drive, no OS.
Basically, I want mass storage (well organized) and backup (like dejadup or
back in time, since clonezilla seems to be for mass deployment, or at least
an simpler system reinstall, not so much for data).
I have one huge 4to external drive,
LUKS/LVM from GParted (as well as setting up passphrase protection) seem to
be available from GParted.
http://thesimplecomputer.info/full-disk-encryption-with-ubuntu
I just bought a 4TO disk, and I don't want to start again with such amount of
space, so I'm trying to get it right from the start for once.
I'm thinking of :
- formatting the whole thing (which format? ext4 is GNU/Linux only I think,
btrfs I don't know if it's worth it, ntfs maybe to connect
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