[Gloucs] How to rescue data from a encrypted filesystem

[Christian Trapp]

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Thanks Nick, it is in fact LUKS and your answer is exactly, what I was
looking for :-) .

Regards
Chris
>> Just of curiousness: I have a encrypted partition now running which is
>> password protected. In case the PC does not start I could rescue the
>> data of a non encrypted partition with a Live CD. This is not possible
>> obviously for a encrypted partition. Is there a similar solution eg.
>> to mount the encrypted partition from a Live CD and after giving the
>> correct password to have fully access to it and to rescue the data?
>
> How's it encrypted? If it's LUKS, then so long as the livecd has
> support for the cipher you chose, the kernel has dm-crypt support, and
> there's a copy of cryptsetup-luks in easy reach, you should be able
> to mount it without problem with something like:
>
> cryptsetup luksOpen /dev/hda2 rescue
> <enter password>
> mount /dev/mapper/rescue /mnt/rescue
>
> Of course, if the partition was damaged in some way, then I don't
> expect you could get anything from it at all.
>
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