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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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Move LUKSHeader from /dev/sdx1 to /dev/sdx
I've got a machine running ubuntu 23.10 with some LUKS-Encrypted disks attached. Unfortunately I think I made some mistakes when creating the Filesystems, as some of the luksHeaders are in /dev/sdX ...
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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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Protect system disk from attaching to another machine
I have a device (Raspberry PI 3, Orange PI 5) with SSD as main disk, running under Ubuntu 22.04.
This device should be autonome, i.e. autimatically reboot and autorun some services.
There is some ...
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Asymmetric Filesystem Encryption
How to encrypt (live) data preferrably as a write only filesystem using a rsa public key known on the device (which is offline), that only later can be decrypted by using the private key?
So once ...
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Mount external LUKS hard drive
I recently updated my laptop's hard drive to a bigger one. The previous one I mounted it in an external case to transform it in to an external drive. The old drive was encrypted with LUKS. When I plug ...
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Why do I need my admin password AND the encryption password when mounting a Veracrypt encrypted partition but not when mounting a LUKS encrypted USB?
This doesn't matter much but I'd like to understand why:
I have an encrypted partition on my internal SSDs (laptop and dekstop), encrypted with Veracrypt (the GUI version).
I also use a LUKS encrypted ...
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LUKS encrypted USB: "Operation cancelled" error on correct passphrase
I'm asking as a new question because I don't have enough rep to comment on answers, and the drive in question here is removable.
I've set up an encrypted USB drive using cryptsetup luksFormat, but I'm ...
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How do I change /home mount point to 2nd encrypted drive where previous /home directy is after new Ununtu install on first SSD
I had to do a complete new install on my first drive, which is an SSD. My previous installation had my /home directory on the 2nd drive, an HDD. Both drives were encrypted. How would I change my /home ...
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Disconnected Hard Drive Still Listed and Will Not Mount
I have a 3 Terabyte hard drive I took out of an old NAS. I ended up using it as a distro testing drive, as it was old and I didn't want to risk losing data to drive failure. I installed Pop!_OS with ...
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Mount encrypted volume in read/write mode
The canonical method to mount encrypted volumes from the command line on later Ubuntu editions involves udisksctl. However, that recipe mounts the volume in read-only mode.
$ udisksctl unlock -b /dev/...
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Automatically mount and unlock ZFS dataset on external USB drive connection
As the title says, I'm trying to mimic the behavior of a LUKS encrypted drive with ZFS.
An external USB drive with LUKS can automatically mount when connected. Ubuntu will show a dialog for the ...
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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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Encrypting a non-empty folder with ecryptfs
I have some folders with a lot of large files inside them and I would like to encrypt them using ecryptfs.
I am wondering if it is possible to mount a folder that already has files (and subfolders ...
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Cannot mount and play copy-protected dvd Ubuntu 22.04 (libdvdcss is installed!) [closed]
Greetings to everybody.
I have a trouble in reading DRM-protected DVDs on my computer (Ubuntu 22.04). Those DVDs I own personally and I just want to watch them. System tries to read the DVD 3 times ...
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