Short after buying the EEEPC I also bought a 320 GB external USB hard disk to be used in support to EEEPC small internal drive. I decided (mainly because of my job) to secure, using cryptography, at least one disk partition. I'm not sure the cryptography settings I did choose would work against any professional hacker but they should be enough to stop most '
curious' people who might, in any way, gain access to my disk . I decided to install
TrueCrypt mainly because it's a multi-platform application so I could possibly prepare encrypted partitions to be used from both Linux and windows computers.
Installation
I first downloaded truecrypt-6.1a-ubuntu-x86.tar.gz (the x86 32bit ubuntu compiled version) from its site downloads page. then I extracted and executed the installation program ...
tar -xvf truecrypt-6.1a-ubuntu-x86.tar.gz
./truecrypt-6.1a-setup-ubuntu-x86
The installation graphic user interface started and I simply had to click the '
Install TrueCrrypt' button and then agreed with the software license. Once installation was completed TrueCrypt icon was automatically placed in the '
other' folder.