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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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How to set up 2 LUKS encrypted Ubuntu installs that share a /boot partition?
I'm sort of a newbie to configuring multiboot setups. For context, with great effort, I was able to set up 2 encrypted installs and have them both bootable from grub via the 40_custom method of adding ...
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Full Disk Encryption With Custom Storage Layout During Ubuntu 24.04 Installation?
During installation of fresh Ubuntu 24.04 LTS, when i select custom storage layout i can not see any option to encrypt the full disk and we are told full disk encryption is available during fresh ...
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How to encrypt partition using LUKS-2?
I have an empty partition (say /dev/sda1) that I want to encrypt with LUKS-2 and be able to open it with passphrase from commonly used file managers (Dolphin, PCManFM-Qt, etc). I prefer a GUI like KDE ...
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Zfs encrypted re-install width more swap
I already installed Ubuntu 24.04 with encrypted zfs partition but my swap partition has only 4Gb.
So I would to reinstall it with a swap partition of 30Gb.
Can I use the actual partitioning and just ...
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More swap on zfs architecture
I just installed Ubuntu 24.04 and choosed encrypted zfs architecture to set compression.
But I need more swap, by default it installed Ubuntu 24.04 with 4gb. I would need much more, at least 16gb.
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Ubuntu 24.04 LTS Encryption of root with Dualboot does not work
I wanted to upgrade from 22.04 LTS to 24.04 LTS and unfortunately, that broke my Ubuntu system entirely. So I installed Ubuntu from scratch.
I used to have a dualboot setup. Windows 11 and Ubuntu. The ...
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Ubuntu 24.04 installer not showing encrypted lvm partitions (luks)
I want to replace my ubuntu 22.04 install which is in an encrypted lvm with new Ubuntu 24.04.
I unlocked to crypted partition :
sudo cryptsetup luksOpen /dev/nvme0n1p3 nvme0n1p3_crypt
password: ok
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Ubuntu 22.04 home directory encryption on a shared computer
First time poster, hi!
I'm an IT support person and I have a need to explore what encrypting home directories on a shared machine running Ubuntu 22.04 would look like. I have read this article that ...
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Installing Ubuntu 23.10 on a separate NVME SSD than Windows 11 with Bitlocker
Yesterday I tried to get some help on fixing my grub2 after removing grub customizer and was unable to do so with any of the responses and my question was closed as resolved. I have decided it may be ...
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Can I decrypt an encrypted USB-HDD using a USB enclosure case, other than the one used for encrypting?
I encrypted an external USB-HDD and it works like a charm, I can decrypt using the password when manually mounting or even automatically decrypt with using the proper settings to do so with using the ...
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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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Is it possible to use old home folder after encryption?
My company wants me to format my computer and do disk encryption however I have tons of customizations on my pc so I don't want to lose them. I thought I can copy my home folder into external disk and ...
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Move Ubuntu 22.04 to hardware hp p410i RAID1 with encrypted volumes on BIOS
I have an old hp n40l microserver with Ubuntu 22.04 on board with quite old BIOS as of 2012.
Now my SSD 256GB disk is split to 2 partitions: /boot/efi and /.
I've bought hp p410i RAID card, and 3 more ...
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How to encrypt a Swap partition after install on a multi-os drive?
My laptop move a lot, and I want to secure it in case somebody get access to it. One of the step is to secure the swap partition, where all memory can be saved.
How to do this using already included ...
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