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Accidentally deleted all partitions, trying to recover ecryptfs home w/ photorec
Heyo, I commited a mistake and accidentally zapped all my partitions from my Linux Mint install. No big problem, I was able to run photorec and get all my .eCryptfs files back. The issue now is trying ...
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Recover files from encrypted drive after erasing and reinstalling Ubuntu
I had ubuntu 21.10 and upgraded to 22.04 sadly this broke a lot of things so I wanted a fresh install. Using the ubuntu installer I erased the drive, installed ubuntu 22.04 on the same hard drive and ...
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How do you use the zfs encryption recovery key
I've installed ubuntu 21.10 using the graphical installer and I chose to use a ZFS root install with encryption using the GUI options (without doing the advanced stuff). At some part of the process I ...
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Data recovery from deleted partitions [duplicate]
I accidently deleted two partitions from an external usb drive. One was a blank ntsb partition with about 1gb. The other was a LUKS partition of the rest of the 250gb drive. I did not format or do ...
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Is a Disk Encryption Password distinct from the root password?
Sooo... I recently had to reset my password on ubuntu 16.04 and I apparently made a typo because I am no longer able to get in.
Brute forcing, etc. is infeasible because the password was around 33 ...
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How do you encrypt data before storing it?
If data can always be recovered no mater how you erase it (correct me if I'm wrong), is it possible to encrypt the data before saving it so that an unencrypted part of it is never stored? Let's say a ...
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How do I recover data from a Logical Volume on Linux after deleting it?
Yesterday I was trying to shrink my Ubuntu partition with LUKS encryption to make place for another distribution, but because it was an LVM partition I was just trying random commands from the ...
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Files lost by encfs
I would like to ask you for a help. I recently used the software encfs in my ubuntu 18.04 laptop. I created a new stash using the same software in my desktop. I would like to list the steps....
I ...
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Mount the encrypted home using mount passphrase
Hello Ubuntu lovers :)
I need help I feel like I lost documents I worked on for 2 long years, it's a huge problem to me even if it looks simple.
here is my issue :
I'm using Ubuntu desktop, 18.04 ...
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Error: Encrypted private direction is not setup properly
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I've used my MOUNT passphrase to use ecryptfs (which I got after adding universe as a repository) successfully, according to the terminal:
sudo ecryptfs-recover-private /mnt/int-hdd
INFO: ...
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Bitlocker windows data partition broken after partition manager apply
I was trying to install ubuntu on my laptop. I tried to move some partitions and extend other ones. One of them was a data partition, that was partitioned using Windows, so it was probably controlled ...
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Recover data from Encrypted External Hard Drive
So yesterday I was installing a couple of distros in a new computer I got, when I was creating a Live USB through the command line with the DD command and I accidentally chose the incorrect device. (...
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Access-Your-Private-Data.desktop on brand new computer, trying to recover old encrypted data
I installed Ubuntu onto a USB stick and encrypted all my data, however my laptop stopped working and I had to purchase a new one and my USB stick no longer boots into Linux.
So I have a brand new ...
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Recover files from non-booting FDE system
My full disk encrypted Ubuntu 18.04 installation only shows a black screen after requiring the encryption key, probably because I messed up some libraries. Before formatting and reinstalling, I need ...
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Dislocker error"Sun May 13 15:01:29 2018 [CRITICAL] Failed to open /etc/localtime: No such file or directory"
I installed the dislocker all correctly from github and I followed these steps to mount my bitlcoker encrypted volume (its /dev/sda5). Now after running this command
$ sudo dislocker -V /dev/sda5 -...
