How to create an Encrypted Partition (local or removable disk)

Attention: following this tutorial will wipe all data from the partition or device you write it to. You cannot encrypt your file system after-the-fact using this method. Be sure you have backups or don’t care about the data being lost if you follow these steps!!!


Step 1:
The first step in the tutorial is installing the cryptsetup utility, which is part of the cryptsetup package. You can search