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http://askubuntu.com – I've just installed Truecrypt on my Ubuntu machine, and I'm trying to encrypt a folder. I will be storing data files of over 4GB, and the format options given to me for this are ext2, ext3 & ext4. There is usually an NTFS option, but it is missing. How can I get that option? Thanks in advance Update: After some more research, I have found out that NTFS is not strongly supported on Linux machines. Apparently creating NTFS partitions is risky. I'll be creating the encrypted file by switching in Windows. (HowTos)

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Submitted by Danial on 01/21/2012 – Made popular on 01/21/2012

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