Access to inactive partitions with a password

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You can create luks-encrypted partitions. I have described a procedure to do this here:

Create A Partially Encrypted External Drive

The goal of this post is to show you how to create a dual-use external drive. I'm going to demonstrate using a 4GB USB stick but the same process can be used on a big external drive as well. Step 0 : Prerequisites You need to have a package called "cryptsetup" installed, to install it open a terminal using CTRL+ALT+T and then type in the command: sudo apt install cryptsetup You'll be asked for your password. When you type in your password you won't see characters such as stars echoed …