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Can I use my encrypted WD external HD on Ubuntu?
My WD external HD is encrypted with WD software utilities which is available only for MAC and Windows.. I wonder if any alternative solution exists (Hardware encryption only pls not veracrypt)
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How to encrypt a directory so that no one can access even when mounted?
In Ubuntu 22.04, I use EncFS to mount a folder (directory) for myself which includes my sensitive data. Every time the system is booted, I mount it manually not to store the password anywhere in the ...
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Can I decrypt an encrypted USB-HDD using a USB enclosure case, other than the one used for encrypting?
I encrypted an external USB-HDD and it works like a charm, I can decrypt using the password when manually mounting or even automatically decrypt with using the proper settings to do so with using the ...
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How can I install old HDD with Ubuntu 20.04 full disk encryption from old PC hardware(Intel) to new PC hardware(AMD)
I had an old PC (Intel) with a HDD encrypted with Ubuntu 20.04 full disk encryption. Unfortunately, the hardware failed. Thankfully, the HDD seems intact. So I bought a new AMD-based PC (new CPU, new ...
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How to Setup Software RAID 1 with FDE & Different Size HDDs
My boot drive is using 22.04. Here's what I want to accomplish:
I have two HDDs, one with 6TB and the other with 8TB capacity. They'll be storage drives, not boot drives. I want to create a software ...
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The HDD is encrypted and I did not do this
In the beginning, my laptop has 2 hard disks, the first of the NVME SSD class and the other for HDD storage
My problem, very briefly, is that I was using Windows and then I used the Hackintosh on the ...
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Disconnected Hard Drive Still Listed and Will Not Mount
I have a 3 Terabyte hard drive I took out of an old NAS. I ended up using it as a distro testing drive, as it was old and I didn't want to risk losing data to drive failure. I installed Pop!_OS with ...
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Would removing my 1st drive be the best way to set up Ubuntu 2204 on a 2nd drive with full disk encryption (while preserving Windows on my 1st drive?) [duplicate]
I have a laptop with two SSDs. The primary SSD is running Windows (which I'm planning to keep in place for now), but I'd like to install Ubuntu 22.04 on the secondary SSD with full disk encryption.
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Can I view the progress of a LUKS encryption that was initiated in the GUI? Alternately can I calculate it?
I am encrypting a 2TB internal hard drive with LUKS using the default Disks app (see image). I am aware that these things are supposed to take time (I've seen days, even weeks, in my cursory googling),...
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Automatically mount and unlock ZFS dataset on external USB drive connection
As the title says, I'm trying to mimic the behavior of a LUKS encrypted drive with ZFS.
An external USB drive with LUKS can automatically mount when connected. Ubuntu will show a dialog for the ...
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How do I programmatically mount zfs at boot?
I encrypted my hard drive with zfs, running ubuntu 22.04.
I'm an idiot and forgot my password. However, I'm pretty confident that it is contained in a list of ~300 passwords that I know.
When I boot, ...
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Filesystem reports less available disk space than LVM (lvm with luks)
There is this issue that has been bothering me for a while. LVM, lvdisplay, vgdisplay, pvdisplay, lsblk all shows the disk has the assigned 3.64 TB, but the filesystem is reporting it's only 1.5 TB.
I ...
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How do I backup, preferably automatically, my Ubuntu 22.04.1 LTS system on another drive?
I have 3 drives:
my main 500GB SSD drive w/Ubuntu,
my secondary 250GB SSD drive w/Windows 10,
and my extra 1TB HDD w/no OS.
I am hoping to have an automatic or semi automatic method of backing up ...
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Why is my Samsung 980 Pro SSD with LUKS and LVM locking up?
Brand new fully-optioned Alienware M15R7, dual SSDs, Windows 11 Home on disk0, Ubuntu LTS on disk1 Samsung 980 Pro SSD. LUKS and LVM configured in tandem on Ubuntu (disk1). Everything has worked ...
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BitLocker-encrypted drive on Ubuntu
I want to use dislocker. I do not have the keys but I found the parameter -u at dislocker.
So mounting the hard drive looks like:
dislocker -r -V /dev/nvme0n1p3 -u123456789 -- /root/1
I recieve a ...
