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Gnome Disk Utility: Cannot change passphrase

Specifications: Gnome Disk Utility v.3.0.2 running on 12.04 LTS on a generic AMD64 box used to partition a HDD interfaced via SATA and create the file-system. Options defined were the following: No ...
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What makes a Partition Table valid?

QUESTION: What makes a Partition Table recognizable and valid to an operating system? (Linux specifically) ? Optional Background Info: I thought there was some sort of "signature" that defines a ...
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What is the right way to re-partition a disk with already installed linux?

What is the right way to fully re-partition my HDD (on a VPS -> no access to hardware), if there is currently installed a Debian Squeeze? I would like to create all encrypted LVM partitions, e.g.: ...
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How to create an encrypted swap partition in Debian 6?

I am installing Debian and would like to set up the /swap partition as encrypted. I am able to select either encrypted physical device or as swap/swap. Are there any methods to create an encrypted ...
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Cannot mount TrueCrypt volume

I encrypted a 800GB partition on my 1TB hard drive. The process completed successfully. But, now when I mount the drive it asks me to format it. I cannot open it. I have 600GB of data and I am not ...
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Mounting two partitions on a pen drive

I have a 8 GB pen drive with two partitions on it, one of 20 MB and the other of the remaining space (7+ GB). Windows detects only the first partition. How can I mount the second partition?
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Truecrypt and hidden volumes [closed]

I would like to know the opinion of some users using (or not) the hidden volume encryption feature of Truecrypt. Personally until now I never used this feature: on Windows I encrypt the system drive ...
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Protecting/securing a single Mac OS X partition (dual-boot setup)

I want to know how to protect a specific Mac OS X 10.7 partition which is installed on a dual-boot machine. I do not need anything too powerful or secure, but I have two Mac partitions on the same ...
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How to encrypt ONLY a user's profile folder (e.g.: /User/sid) on Mac OS X Lion 10.7.2?

I wanted a way to encrypt my user folder e.g. (/User/sid/*) and have Mac OS X auto mount it based off my login credentials. Since that folder also contains profile info, I suspect it would need to be ...
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TrueCrypt System Favorite Volume doesn't mount automatically on boot

I've encrypted my system partition using TrueCrypt and I've read that I can mount my encrypted data partition (TrueCrypt volume) on boot by making it a "System Favorite" and giving it the same ...
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Encrypting two partitions using TrueCrypt

Is it possible to encrypt both the windows system partition and a data partition, without encrypting the whole harddisk, using truecrypt? It's because the haddisk has other partitions with Fedora ...
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Can I set up a password-dependent partition as seen in “Little Brother”?

I was just reading Little Brother (the Cory Doctorow book) and I thought about how awesome it would be if, on startup, a computer asked for a password. Depending on the password, it could open ...
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How do I prevent a disk from mounting?

I own an Iomega Prestige. The disk series includes a Virtual CD partition that includes a file encryption utility that can only be used on a Windows machine. Every time I mount the external drive to ...
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Fedora15 - Help me understand how cryptsetup and LVM interact

Upgrading F11 to F15 I've decided to encrypt the disk. Anaconda appears to have limited support for custom disk partitions (mine is dual boot). The result of my second install attempt was a PV boot ...
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How do I prevent external systems from mounting my ext4 partition?

I have an ext4 partition which I use as my home partition. I noticed that by running another Linux system either from the disk or even from LiveCD I am able to mount and inspect the contents of said ...
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What are the current options to encrypted a partition on mac os x?

I recently got my laptop stolen with some sensitive informations on it (personal source code, bank details in a secure file, passwords, etc) and I learnt the lesson: encrypt your sensitive data. Now, ...
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ext3: maximum recommended partition size / handling large partitions

I would like to do an encrypted install of Ubuntu on a 2 Terabyte drive (i.e., using LUKS/DMcrypt). In order to not have to type in passwords too often, the partitioning scheme will be 50 GB for / and ...
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Bitlocker performance when only encrypting one partition

I've read about the performance hit when encrypting your hard drive with Bitlocker, and since I'm using my computer to play games once in a while, I'm a little hesitant. I have two partitions on the ...
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Wake-on-LAN with encrypted drive

I've set up a Ubuntu system as a server, with the entire drive encrypted. It needs the password at bootup, after the BIOS hands over to GRUB (at least I think that's when). I've since set up ...
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Put /home on another partition and encrypt it

How can I move my /home folder in Ubuntu to another partition (also to be the "My Documents" folder for Windows, which I dual boot) and encrypt it. Then I want the partition to be unencrypted by ...
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Encrypt partition from the command line with PGP Desktop

How do you encrypt a partition, instead of a full disk, with PGP Desktop, from the command line? To encrypt a whole disk there seems to be a --disk argument, but I can't find how to do it for ...
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Sharing an encrypted home folder between Ubuntu and Kubuntu 9.10

I have a drive partitioned into three sections: two small ones and one large one. (Let's call them partitions A, B, C). Partition A has Ubuntu 9.10 installed on it, with partition C mounted as /home. ...
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Encrypting partition/volume using TrueCrypt

I'd like to password protect an existing partition on my mac using TrueCrypt. I selected the partition using "Select Device", but I'm not sure what exactly is the process, can someone please tell me ...