Comments on: Rescue an encrypted LUKS LVM volume

By: glesshoppa

glesshoppa — Fri, 04 Mar 2011 01:34:21 +0000

In my situation, I had an encrypted system and /home folder and lost video configuration. While I was never able to restore my video configuration. Despite the fact that I tried every related forum entry I could find. I finally decided to reinstall to my system partition leaving the others intact. During reinstall I opted to not mount my /home drive hoping to mount and reconnect it after re-install. In short is it possible to unlock and then remount a formerly encrypted /home volume? If so I have a question. I noticed after reinstall that even after mounting the “old” /home folder It was not able to access it. I found your forum and the above “how-to” When I used your how-to I noticed I was never able to access or unlock any volumes. I then noticed that the /home folder was not mounted. Does the encrypted volume need to be mounted at the time of the scan? Thanks in advance for your help.

David

By: heh

heh — Fri, 30 Apr 2010 23:30:30 +0000

Much appreciated. Without this I would have had to re-install fedora.

By: jcypher

jcypher — Sun, 15 Feb 2009 02:27:45 +0000

denali206, use aptitude instead of apt-get, it’s the same functionality.

By: denali206

denali206 — Wed, 17 Dec 2008 23:35:36 +0000

Unfortunately, I can’t get this to work from the live cd. Unknown command apt-get.

By: an0nym0use

an0nym0use — Tue, 04 Nov 2008 10:51:54 +0000

wow, my encrypted volume is sda1, not sda5
and mount command like “sudo mount /dev/mapper/LABEL-root /media/MOUNTPOINT”

By: an0nym0use

an0nym0use — Tue, 04 Nov 2008 10:23:25 +0000

I have SATA(hda) hdd with Ubuntu 8.10 + lvm + encrypt
/dev/sda1 * 1 60770 488134993+ 83 Linux
/dev/sda2 60771 60801 249007+ 5 Extended
/dev/sda5 60771 60801 248976 83 Linux

On other Ubuntu 8.10
andruffka@andruffka:~$ sudo cryptsetup luksOpen /dev/sda5 crypt1
Command failed: Can not access device
andruffka@andruffka:~$

what’s wrong?

By: moebus

moebus — Tue, 02 Sep 2008 00:05:26 +0000

Thanks a lot,
I’ve just broke my fedora system and was unable to access my LUKS-LVM “/” partition untill I found you tutorial.

you make me very happy!

By: Ubuntu User

Ubuntu User — Sun, 20 Jul 2008 09:20:55 +0000

Thanks!
I’ve just installed Ubuntu 8.04 on a encrypted partition with lvm a few days ago and wondered how to do this, if something goes wrong.
Never worked with lvm before…