The next window will appear, now click on the standard Veracrypt volume and click next. Click on the create volume button, and the tool will start the USB drive encryption.Ī window will appear with two options, select the create volume within a partition to format and encrypt a non-system partition, i.e., a USB drive, in this case, and then click the next button. Click on the install button to begin the installation process.Īfter installation, go to the menu and type veracrypt to open a nice veracrypt graphical user interface.īefore beginning the encryption process, insert the USB drive and format it using VeraCrypt. A package installer window will appear asking for installation. For Linux installation, visit the following link to download the version relevant to your Linux distribution.Īfter download, open the VeraCrypt GUI package from the downloads directory. It is available for Linux, Mac OS, and Microsoft Windows as well. VeraCrypt is free and open-source software with quality encryption and provides a very easy and attractive GUI. Now, whenever you open the USB drive, it will ask for the password used for encrypting the USB drive. Write the password and click the Next button, and it will confirm if you want to format the drive.įormat the drive by clicking on the format button appearing on the top right corner of the window. Now it will ask for the password to encrypt the drive. Write the volume name and select the ext4 filesystem with password-protected volume and click the Next button. Select the format option from the list, and a new window will appear containing all the available options. Now select the USB drive from the drives and click on the Settings symbol to open a list of options. It will open a nice graphical interface tool showing all the mounted drives on your system. In order to open the Gnome Disk tool, search for the Disk on your system and open it. Disk gnome is a graphical user interface tool used to encrypt the USB and is preinstalled in Linux. Linux provides a graphical interface tool to encrypt a USB drive.

Now close the drive using the luksClose method of the cryptsetup sudo cryptsetup luksClose luks Encrypt USB Data Using Disk Gnome

Password protect flash drive