Every one of us has our private data that should be kept secure from theft. It includes family photos, personal documents, and any other data that is personal and need to be secured. Encryption is one way to keep your data safe and away from others.

When a hard disk is encrypted, no one can extract the data out of the hard drive without regular logging onto the PC.

Large organizations use encryption on the work computer to safeguard their data from the leak in case the employer loses the work computer.

In this tutorial, we are going to help you encrypt your hard disk partitions on Ubuntu and its derivatives, with easy and clear steps. Be careful when you are learning and doing it the first time. I recommend doing a trial of this tutorial on a small partition whose data is already backed up.

If you have installed popular Linux distros such as Ubuntu, Linux Mint, etc., you should have noticed an option offered during the installation process to set up an encrypted partition.…