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Q Second disk encryption

I have two SSDs in my machine running LXLE (Ubuntu 18.04). One is a boot/home drive that was encrypted at the time of install. I would now like to encrypt the second drive, which is used for data storage and VMs. I’m still a relative beginner and was wondering what’s the most user-friendly way to encrypt the second drive and access it easily to run my VMs? There seems to be many options, for example LUKS, GnuPG and VeraCrypt.

Sandeep Bappoo

There are indeed many options, and we don’t know which has been used to encrypt your main drive. When encrypting a whole disk or partition, is the usual choice. It’s not suitable for a total novice to set up, but if you’re happy to use the command line it’s. This is what Ubuntu uses if you choose an encrypted home directory when installing. is different in that it runs in user space, has a GUI for set up and is cross-platform, so you can read the same encrypted data from Linux and Windows.