Hard Drive Encyption

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

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Check out veracrypt. It's free and easy to use.
- Thanks for your response.
  
  Since you got your system already installed, veracrypt is probably the way you want to go.
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.
- I won't really trust Bitlocker coming from Microsoft.
  
  What do you have against NSA_KEY I swear it's not a backdoor!
- 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
Look into the dm-crypt Linux kernel module.
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?
  
  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.
  
  i think endeavour lets yuo do FDE from the gui installer also but yeah fedora is fucking great
Holy shit, what kind of pirated material are you hiding? :P
- encrypting the drive mainly prevent an eventual thief from getting access to your files, including personal documents and web cookies, since system passwords does absolutely nothing against someone with access to your hard drive, and that includes paswords you may have writtend on a file that you later deleted, where as if you encrypted your drive, there is nothing you have to worry about but to buy another computer if it is stolen
  
  totally valid points, i'm just betting deadbeat eventual thief hasn't got the smart on how to bypass windows passwords. It's a gamble, but i'm willing to look into encryption based just off of that.
- Could be a hard drive of normal pirated movies and going across the border. But encrypting it would be dumb anyway.
  
  Also, it's just a normal security measure. If pirating is illegal in your country it will always be better to encrypt the incriminating material in case of a search warrant.
  
  Who knows their reasons? I was just being silly hehe
  
  Is travelling to another country with pirated movies an issue?

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