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Old 09-28-2013, 09:13 AM   #1
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Encrypting a hard drive with opensuse

What is the correct or safest way to encrypt and password protect an external hard drive? The hard drive has data already on it.
 
Old 09-28-2013, 08:47 PM   #2
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if there is data on the drive, then you can not encrypt the drive. full disk encryption, from what i understand, is done at format time.

now you can tar up the data and then pass encryption to the tarball, but that will not make it near as easy to access.
 
  


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