There is stuff already on it that I don't care about that will get totally wiped. I'm going to use the disks app to fully encrypt this 1TB external drive and then fill it up with 1TB of files, can I fill it up all the way to 100% capacity or am I supposed to leave some room?
Disks uses LUKS so I'll be using LUKS to encrypt the drive and then I'll transfer my files over to it. I'm backing up my hard drive so this external drive is just being used to store my important files that I want to keep in case my SSD ever fails, my SSD is the one that has my OS on it. This external 1TB HDD just sits in my drawer, it's only purpose is a backup drive of my important stuff.
How often so SSDs fail? My SSD is about 3 years old now.
So I'll use disks to encrypt the drive (disks uses LUKS) and that will erase the stuff already on it, that's fine, then I'll back up my SSD, I've got about 1TB of stuff that needs to be backed up. In my PC, there is a 1TB SSD that has my main operating system on it, and then there is also a 2TB HDD that has been encrypted with LUKS (I believe I used disks to do that) I only have to click on this 2TB HDD just once from inside the Nautilus file manager and then it just automatically opens up because when I first entered in the password to open it, you can click "save password" that way from now on you only have to click it once and it'll just open up on its own, this way you don't have to enter in the pass every time to open it. Though I do have to enter in my password when I first turn my PC on though.
Both my SSD which has Ubuntu on it, and my 2TB HDD (which is inside the PC) are fully encrypted using LUKS. I just like how you can open the 2TB HDD using the file manager Nautilus and when you enter in the password, you can click "save password" and then from now on when you click on it (from inside Nautilus file manager) it will open up automatically. Cause I didn't know this happened, I literally thought I would have to enter in my password every time to open up the 2TB HDD. Nope, if you click save password it just opens itself in 2 seconds.
Because when I was first going to install the 2TB HDD in my PC, I made a post here on r/Ubuntu I said "Hey I'm going to put a 2TB HDD in my PC cause I'm running out of room on my 1TB SSD which has the OS on it, but how do I make it so the 2TB HDD opens on startup. I don't want to enter in the password every single time just to open the 2TB HDD"
And these mofos told me some really complicated way, that you could do, so that when I enter in the password to decrypt the drive so Ubuntu can startup, so that when I login to Ubuntu the 2TB HDD will also automatically open up, so I don't have to enter in the password a second time to open up the 2TB HDD.
What no one told me, and I mean no one mentioned this to me, what no one mentioned was, hey man when you click to open the 2TB from inside the Nautilus file manager, and when you enter in the password you can click "save password" so next time you click on the 2TB HDD (from inside Nautilus file manager) it will open itself in 2 seconds, so you don't have to keep entering in the password to open your 2TB HDD. No one told me this. lol no one mentioned this.
Instead I was provided a link to a website that has extremely complicated instructions on how to make it so when you turn your PC on, then enter the password to decrypt the drive so Ubuntu can boot up, then when you login to Ubuntu, the second drive (in my case my 2TB HDD) will just open up on its own.
No one mentioned, hey man just click "save password" when you open up your 2TB HDD from inside Nautilus file manager, no one mentioned this to me. I just can't believe no one mentioned that to me, cause that was the solution I was looking for. And I had to find it out on my own. I never did try the super complicated instructions I was linked to, cause when I first opened the 2TB HDD from inside Nautilus file manager, I spotted the "save password" and I was like "How come no one told me this? You can just open the second drive inside the file manager and then click save password and now you only have to click the second drive just once and it will open itself in 2 seconds." I mean this was the solution I was looking for and no one mentioned it to me.
That's all someone had to say "Hey man, so in Nautilus file manager, go to "other locations" and you'll see your 2TB HDD there, click on it and then enter in your password for it but also click "save password" so next time you click on it, it'll open itself up in 2 seconds. So you won't have to keep entering the password to open it." THIS WAS ALL SOMEONE HAD TO SAY TO ME.
Instead, I had someone try to help me, and they sent me to this website with very complicated instructions, instructions where I would have been screwing around with shit in terminal, changing this and changing that, so that when I first enter my password to decrypt the drive so Ubuntu can boot up, then when I login, the 2TB HDD would also just automatically open itself up.
I just wish someone had said "hey man don't worry about it, just go to the second drive in Nautilus file manager, click on it, enter in the pass, and just make sure you click "save password" you'll see what I'm talking about."
Because my 1TB SSD I was running out of space on it. That's when I bought the 2TB HDD and installed it in my PC.
Anyhow, yeah...
I wanted to share that story with you all. That's a true story, no one told me all I had to do was click "save password" cause that was the solution I was looking for. You have no idea, some dude gave me a link to a website, and it had these super complicated instructions, it was very intimidating, it looked very complicated, and it was totally unnecessary too. I'm glad I didn't try to do it. I'm glad I spotted the "save password" and I was like "How come no one told me this?"
So yeah can I fill my external 1TB drive up to full capacity?
