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When mounting luks-encrypted disk-containers remotely, how to recover from loss of connection?

I keep sensitive data encrypted via luks, in container files. Those files are usually stored remotely (SMB, sshfs etc). So my current workflow is as follows: sudo mount $remoteshare /mnt sudo ...
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Fix For Blanked Out UUID On Luks Encrypted Drive?

Problem: When I mount a Luks Encrypted drive, the drive mounts, but I can't access the files. The drive is the root drive. It has ElementaryOS installed on it. It booted fine, until after doing some ...
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cryptsetup not unlocking at boot

I have these two files: /etc/crypttab: cry1 /dev/sda3 none luks cry2 /dev/sda4 /mounted/sda3/keyfile luks /etc/fstab: /dev/sda1 /boot ext2 ro 0 ...
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systemd: decrypt luks device on access

I have an external drive with a LUKS-encrypted partition. As the device is an external USB device and I don't always need it, I only want to decrypt and automount on demand. I can easily automount the ...
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mounting and accessing Encrypted LVM after reinstallation of Linux

I had Fedora installed on a LVM & had my /home & another file systems in it encrypted. ( i remember the passwords but forgot the cipher protocol used ) Now, I installed Ubuntu without ...
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Automount LUKS encrypted USB HDD with keyfile auth in Mint/Cinnammon

My external backup HDD is LUKS encrypted and can be mounted with password or key file. When plugged in, Cinnammon asks me for a password and mounts it to /media/user/drivename. I want to change ...
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