Anybody know a guide or reading material on learning how to encrypt hard drives ?
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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.
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
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.
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.
Mint only allows you to encrypt your home partition.
Lol WTF? Cryptsetup has been a thing for what? Twenty years?
encrypting /home is good if you have multiple users also eCryptfs is also thing for several years just like LUKS/dm-crypt
