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How to recover a deleted LUKS partition
I have created a LUKS encrypted pen drive with the gnome-disks tool, but a time ago I have accidentally formatted the disk, losing the partition.
I tried to recuperate the partition stored on sda1 ...
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Full disk encryption has rendered my workstation unusable. Want to start from scratch. How can I get it to boot to GDM?
I was asked a few months ago by my ex-employer to put full-disk encryption in place for my computer. I failed at this task. It has been effectively a brick since then.
I do not need any contents of my ...
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LUKS: Decrypt home directory
I have Ubuntu with encrypted home directory. Today I worked with Ubuntu but free space was running out. After reboot laptop, on the half progress of encryption I start see balck screen with steady ...
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Mounting a Windows Share NTFS Drive: Ubuntu File Manager, "Passphrase Needed to Access Encrypted Data"
I have installed Ubuntu 22.04 LTS on dual boot with Windows 11. I let Ubuntu use only one of the four drives. Now in Ubuntu, the other three drives are showing in an encrypted form. When clicked, ...
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BitLocker-encrypted drive on Ubuntu
I want to use dislocker. I do not have the keys but I found the parameter -u at dislocker.
So mounting the hard drive looks like:
dislocker -r -V /dev/nvme0n1p3 -u123456789 -- /root/1
I recieve a ...
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cryptsetup: waiting for encrypted source device /swapfile
I know this has been asked but I am asking this because the fix i found didnt work.
I got the same problem this person had: Ubuntu 19.04 "waiting for encrypted source device /swapfile" and ...
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Ubuntu Core: Is it possible to use an external encrypted file system?
I am playing with a Raspberry Pi 3 and Ubuntu Core. One of the requirements I have for taking it into a more serious use, is the capacity to manage encrypted drives, like mounting them during the boot ...
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Securely Mounting a Remote LUKS Partition at Boot
I am having trouble setting up a system to backup a couple of computers, it has several partitions that are LVM on LUKS, and the server has no disk encryption. My computer is encrypted, and I am ...
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Grub looking for an encrypted root UUID before the container decryption
I was cleaning Ubuntu 18.10 with bleachbit when my PC froze. When rebooting, I was stucked after Grub at BusyBox (initramfs). When exiting BusyBox, I get the message:
ALERT! UUID=f6fc1852-25c6-47a6-...
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cannot mount luks-encrypted partition from live usb
For a while my Ubuntu hasn't been booting anymore as it tells me to update the microcode. I've asked about it here but wasn't able to resolve it. I had my hard drive encrypted so I've decided to focus ...
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Why Luks only asks for password once at boot for 2 devices?
I have the following lines in /etc/crypttab:
cryptswap1 /dev/sda2 none luks
hd-crypt UUID=xxxx none luks
and both use the same luks password.
The behaviour of Ubuntu upon boot is:
Please enter ...
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How to recover my LUKS partition after this failed resize operation?
TL;DR: I messed up a LUKS partition resize operation and need help restoring it. Below is all relevant information I could think of. If you think any other information might be relevant, or if ...
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Can I mount a bitlockered volume at boot?
At boot (talking about Xubuntu here), I'm already asked for the decryption key for the / mount point (for the OS itself), which is set up with /etc/fstab and /etc/crypttab. The current setup is having ...
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Recover Deleted/Luks Encrypted Disk
I am a new Linux user so forgive me if I don't phrase anything correctly or please be more specific in your answers and I would really appreciate it.
Description:
I was trying to do dual systems ...
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Long boot time after upgrade to 16.04; "Lost" encryption on one volume; Mismatch between blkid and fstab
I need some help to figure this out. I recently upgraded from Ubuntu Studio 14.04 to Ubuntu Studio 16.04 via apt-get dist-upgrade.
So far so good but my boot time got insanely long (3min+) and I don'...
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