I recently created a HD for dual boot Win 11 and Pop Os. I created a shared partition for Data, and separate partitions for the respective OS. I used gParted to create the partitions. It looks like Win then added bitlocker to this data partition.
(It’s not really encrypted, I guess, because I didn’t create a microsoft account, and didn’t receive a recovery key)
So now I can’t access that partition when booted into Pop OS without entering a password (which I don’t have).
I’m wondering a couple of things: what’s the best practice in these scenarios? Have the shared data drive not be encrypted with Bitlocker? If so, is there something else that should be done for security purposes? If not, it looks like using Dislocker is a common solution to access the drive in Linux?
I appreciate the additional info. Since I want to make Linux primary (one of my two main points in this little project is getting familiar with Linux!), I’ll look into Luks for that partition
The db2 / vm suggestion is a little over my head, currently, but I’ll research that as well!
Also, bitlocker is not the only disk encryption software for Windows. It’s just the built in one. If you wanted, you could use something like Veracrypt which is open source and will play nicely with all your OSes.