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So I have this Windows 10 PC encrypted with Vera Crypt. Are there any caveats If I'd want to install Ubuntu on dual boot? Or the installation process would be the same as usual?

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I am not familiar with Vera Crypt, but given you have a free partition, you can install it there perfectly fine. It's just the partition will not be encrypted anymore, but you can enable encryption in Ubuntu either.

However, if you have a single encrypted partition, and want to break it to two, then everything gets harder. You could probably try reduce the partition size straight with gparted, but it is likely to destroy your data, because it have no way to know where are files resides on the encrypted partition. There is a VeraCryptExpander, but I'm not sure if it can reduce encrypted partition too, or only expand.

So, if you want to break up a single encrypted partition to two, the simplest way would probably be

  1. Remove encryption
  2. Reduce partition size
  3. Create a new partition from the freed size
  4. Encrypt the partition back.
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