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Click on the [[!img lib/view-more.png alt="Drive Options" class="symbolic" link="no"]] button in the title bar and choose **Format Disk** to erase all the existing partitions on the device.
 
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[[!img storage_devices_after.png class="screenshot" alt=""]]
 
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After unlocking, you can access the content of the partition from the sidebar of the *Files* browser.
 
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[[!img unlock.png class="screenshot" alt="Authentication Required"]]
 
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You can open this new partition from the sidebar of the *Files* browser with the name you gave it.
 
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[[!img encrypted_partition.png class="screenshot" alt="Partition 1 4.0 GB LUKS / Filesystem 4.0 GB Ext4"]]
[[!img create_partition.png link=no alt="Create partition on…"]]
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[[!img empty_device.png class="screenshot" alt="Free Space 123 GB"]]
[[!img places_secret.png link=no alt="Places ▸ secret"]]
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Choose **Apps ▸ Utilities ▸ Disks** to open the *Disks* utility.
 
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<p>An attacker in possession of the device can know that there is an encrypted
volume on it. Take into consideration that you can be forced or tricked to give
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<p>Such encrypted volumes, like the Persistent Storage, are not hidden.</p>
 
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If you want to create another partition in the free space on the device, click on the free space and then click on the **[[!img lib/list-add.png alt="Create partition" class="symbolic" link="no"]]** button again.
 
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Click on the **[[!img lib/list-add.png alt="Create partition" class="symbolic" link="no"]]** button to create a new partition on the device.
 
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You can also open *VeraCrypt* encrypted volumes in Tails. *VeraCrypt* is a disk encryption tool for Windows, macOS, and Linux. [[See our documentation about *VeraCrypt*.|veracrypt]]
 
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You can create other encrypted volumes using *LUKS* to encrypt, for example, another USB stick or an external hard disk. *LUKS* is the standard for disk encryption in Linux.
 
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