Dual boot Windows with full disk encryption?

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migobird
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Iscritto: 08/26/2015

I need Windows for work and would like to dual boot. I saw this guide which is great https://trisquel.info/en/wiki/full-disk-encryption-install but it doesn't seem to allow for dual booting.

How I usually dual boot is using "manual" to make a swap, /, and /home partition in free space I've created using Windows' disk manager. I know I can encrypt /home this way, but is encrypting the entire partition possible?

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Iscritto: 07/24/2010

What about encrypting the sole /home partition? Even the graphical installer proposes that option. And it proposes as well to keep your existing operating systems (that will be listed in the bootloader menu). I guess you can separately take care of encrypting the data on the NTFS partitions (is VeraCrypt free software?).

migobird
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Iscritto: 08/26/2015

The main thing I want to encrypt is /var/www, so the /home option doesn't do me much good. And I use separate drives for media so /home is usually empty. I may end up just getting a second SSD and "dual booting" that way.

Legimet
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Iscritto: 12/10/2013

It's possible. Just use the "manual" partitioning option.