Disk Encryption - Laptops w/ Dual Boot Environment
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I've got several laptops that I am planning to deploy that will be dual booting Windows 7 and Ubuntu 14.04LTS. As these will be leaving the building and traveling on occasion, I'm wanting to encrypt the disks. Since we're using Windows 7 Pro, I don't have access to bitlocker. I've been looking at and evaluating the use of VeraCrypt to accomplish this.
Any other reasonable alternatives that might work as well or better? Any problems/pitfalls that might come as a result of using VeraCrypt?
Most of the disks being encrypted are MMC SSDs with the exception of one 7200rpm HDD. These are Dell Latitude e7440 Ultrabooks if that makes any difference.
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VeraCrypt feels like the logical option to me.
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so, you'll have three partitions? one for Ubuntu, one for Windows, and one for shared data that's encrypted?
I know Ubuntu can read NTFS partitions, so maybe you can get away with two?
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@Dashrender said:
so, you'll have three partitions? one for Ubuntu, one for Windows, and one for shared data that's encrypted?
I know Ubuntu can read NTFS partitions, so maybe you can get away with two?
I'll only have one system that will have three, and the third will be on a second hard disk that will be used for data storage. He will mostly be operating from Windows so I plan to use NTFS for that disk. Other than that, I should just have two partitions on a single SSD.
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Most of what they are doing doesn't require a lot of shared data between the Operating Systems, just different sets of tools. They are interfacing with a lot of prototype hardware using various tools. Most of the stuff is designed in Linux, and frequently runs in Windows. Although, some of the design tools are only natively available in Windows. (Altium as an example)
