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For questions about the VeraCrypt open source encryption application. VeraCrypt can create a virtual encrypted disk within a file or encrypt a partition or storage device.

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When mounting an SSD encrypted with VeraCrypt on Ubuntu 24.04, I get the following alerts: # veracrypt /dev/sda2 /mnt/crucial ** (veracrypt:18207): WARNING **: 19:02:42.514: Unable to connect to dbus:...
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After deleting files on a veracrypt-encrypted drive with no disk space left, no disk space is freed up. I'm trying to sync a hard drive to another one as described here. That target drive is full and ...
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For Windows, VeraCrypt implements a feature called "system favorite volumes".  It allows mounting additional discs with the password entered at boot to unlock the system partition. Specs: I ...
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I want to test if physical errors of the disk, of it that is not possible, file system errors of the disk. The disk is a typical USB external drive. The disk (not by partition-level, but the whole ...
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I am in the process of eliminating non-free code from my machines. I currently am using Veracrypt to lock some files behind encryption, and quite like that I have a .vc file I can easily backup and ...
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Trying to use veracrypt (console) in WSL. I make a volume, seems to work OK... but when I try to mount it: Done: 100.000% Speed: 5.0 MiB/s Left: 0 s The VeraCrypt volume has been successfully ...
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I'm not even sure if my question is correct, but I got the following problem. I have an encrypted USB drive (via veracrypt) which I decrypt on boot with crypttab and which is automatically mounted for ...
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When copy and pasting commands with a space at the end it automatically runs the command without requiring the user to press enter. This is why I overwrote a large text file with a cp ./newfile ./...
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