[CentOS] TrueCrypt WD External Drive

Joseph L. Casale jcasale at activenetwerx.com
Fri Jan 28 19:47:15 UTC 2011


>>> I have a WD Elements 2TB USB hard drive.  I would like to
>>> encrypt the whole drive with TrueCrypt on my CentOS box.
>>> Could someone direct me to a tutorial on how to do this?
>>> Ideally, I would also like to access it with my WinXP box,
>>> but this part is optional.

>Last time I checked I was searching for whole disk encryption for OS-X
>and TrueCrypt does this only for Windows.

Probably a semantics issue, op wanted a drive to access from two
OS's, so whole drive enc in form of the partition that has data is
likely the only need as I presume he doesn't intend to boot from it.

Also, it's a USB drive, so again not likely needing to boot from it...



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