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I'm running Ubuntu 14.04 LTS and I have a Western Digital external hard drive (Passport Ultra) mounted. I want to encrypt the entire drive. WD has Windows and Mac utilities available, but nothing for Linux/Ubuntu.

I have consulted Ubuntu help and found one article (https://help.ubuntu.com/community/EncryptedFilesystemsOnRemovableStorage), but the material appears to be seriously dated. The article recommends installing a utility, Gnome-disk-utility, but my attempt to do so failed owing to dependency problems which I am not sufficiently knowledgeable even to attempt to resolve. The help article also gives a routine for encrypting entirely from the terminal, but I am hesitant to try because apparently it hasn't been tested since version 10.04.

So my questions are:

  1. is there a Gnome-disk-utility package available for 14.04 (and if so, where); or failing that

  2. is the command line routine reliable for 14.04?

Any help would be much appreciated.

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You can easily install the Disk Utility in 14.04: 

sudo apt-get install gnome-disk-utility

If this doesn't work, please post the exact error messages that you get.

To then open Disk Utility check this question:

It allows to very easily create encrypted partitions:

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