[[!meta title="Createing and useing LUKS encrypted volumes"]]

[[!meta title="Creating and using LUKS encrypted volumes"]]

<p>The simplest way to carry around the documents that you want to use
with Tails encrypted is to use the [[encrypted pPersistent
sStorage|first_steps/persistenct_storage]].</p>

<p>The simplest way to carry around the documents that you want to use
with Tails encrypted is to use the [[Persistent
Storage|persistent_storage]].</p>

Click on the <span class="guimenu">[[!img lib/open-menuview-more.png alt="MenuDrive Options" class="symbolic" link="no"]]</span> button in the title bar and choose **Format Disk…** to erase all the existing partitions on the device.

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.