<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>
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- The GNOME desktop*Disks* utility allows you to opencreate encrypted volumes.
You can also open <span class="application">VeraCrypt</span> encrypted volumes in Tails. <span class="application">VeraCrypt</span> is a disk encryption tool for Windows, macOS, and Linux. [[See our documentation about <span class="application">VeraCrypt</span>.|veracrypt]]
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Create<h1 id="creating">Creating an encrypted partition</h1>
[[!img lib/system-run.png alt="Additional partition options" class="symbolic" link="no"]] 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.
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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In the <span class="guilabel">**Format Disk</span>** dialog:
If you want to securely erasoverwrite all data on the device, choose to <span class="guilabel">**Overwrite existing data with zeroes</span>** in the <span class="guilabel">Erase</span> drop-down list**Erase** menu.