If you're worried about encryption strength, VeraCrypt is also the better option as you can configure it for truly paranoid security. However, if you use VeraCrypt, you can host a partition file on either OS and access it from both, and mount it as required - as well as back it up, archive it etc. If you have both encrypted using a method the other can't handle you lose that ability.
It's really useful to be able to share information between operating systems. That could be from early FileVault and everything might be fine now but it makes me nervous enough. Click the Encryption pop-up menu, then choose an encryption option. There are quite a few mentions (if you google) of the Boot Camp partition failing to boot if FileVault isn't enabled in a very specific way. If you’re using the encrypted disk image with a Mac computer using macOS 10.12 or earlier, choose Mac OS Extended (Journaled) or Mac OS Extended (Case-sensitive, Journaled). Theoretically it should be fine but I don't think I would do it for two reasons.
#MAC OS EXTENDED JOURNALED ENCRYPTED NOT AN OPTION MAC OS X#
If you need a great, free, cross-platform, open-source, strong encryption tool check out VeraCrypt.Ĭan you use FileVault on your Mac OS X partition and BitLocker on your Boot Camp Windows partition at the same time? (perhaps it is more correct to say FileVault does not support anything but Mac OS Extended (Journaled) partitions) No, Windows does not support FileVault (so it would not boot if it was encrypted thus!) The Windows option would be BitLocker.