<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>
You can create other encrypted volumes using <span class="application">LUKS</span> to encrypt, for example, another USB stick or an external hard disk. <span class="application">LUKS</span> is the standard for disk encryption in Linux.
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]]
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.