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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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Uncryptroot-unlock with dropbear doesn't launch my ubuntu
I am facing an issue with a computer with Ubuntu 22.04 LTS.
My SSD Disk is uncrypt with LUKS. I have no access to this computer and I only do SSH connexion.
Normaly I uncrypt the computer using ...
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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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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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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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Luks encrypted hard drive won't boot
To start, I apologize if this question has been asked before. I've never had this happen before and I have a hard time trying to diagnose my issue.
The problem:
I'm running Ubuntu Server 16.04 with ...
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How to mount a luks encrypted partition at boot
I have been given a task to creat a LUKS encrypted partition and then mount it, here are the steps I followed:
Create the partition for encryption:
sudo fdisk /dev/sda
Reboot
Format the partition ...
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Mount LUKS encrypted hard drive at boot (luks key stored in HOME folder which is encrypted by ecryptfs)
This question is regarding the one raised at: Mount LUKS encrypted hard drive at boot
I have added my key to home folder and all works as a charm. Thanks guys!
However I would like to better ...
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second hard drive, encrypted (LUKS, but mounts separately)
I have two storage devices in my machine. When I installed ubuntu, it offered to format the SSD and install to it, which was what I wanted. I didn't offer to do anything with the second. Fair ...
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Switch from encrypted partition to unencrypted (Error: cryptsetup: evms_activate is not available)
I initially installed Ubuntu 11.04 with an encrypted file system (from the alternate install CD: Guided Partitioning, LVM encrypted). Now I wanted to change this setup to have my root file system on ...
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