I'm attempting to retrieve files stored to a partition but I didn't realize it was encrypted. This is the message I receive, can anyone tell me what it means exactly and if I can fix it?
Error unlocking /dev/sdb1: Command-line `cryptsetup luksOpen "/dev/sdb1" "luks-6ed13450-70e5-4fa9-baae-afcfd550f83a" ' exited with non-zero exit status 2: No key available with this passphrase.
(udisks-error-quark, 0)
Thanks in advance!
Attempting to retrieve files from encrypted partition
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Attempting to retrieve files from encrypted partition
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Re: Attempting to retrieve files from encrypted partition
Hello td1246
Welcome to Linux Mint and the Linux Mint forum
To access a LUKS encrypted partition you can use
You'll be prompted for the password. After entering it mount the mapped device with
Your files will be available in the /mnt folder.
Welcome to Linux Mint and the Linux Mint forum
To access a LUKS encrypted partition you can use
sudo cryptsetup luksOpen /dev/sdb1 crypt
You'll be prompted for the password. After entering it mount the mapped device with
sudo mount /dev/mapper/crypt /mnt
Your files will be available in the /mnt folder.
Re: Attempting to retrieve files from encrypted partition
Thanks for the reply, it didn't work... says that no key available with this passphrase. So I'm going to start recreating some of my documents that are on that drive
Re: Attempting to retrieve files from encrypted partition
"tell me what it means exactly" The passphrase you used to unlock the volume does not unlock the data.
If you have a rough idea of what the passphrase should be, there are feasible methods of getting the machine to guess on your behalf...
https://hashcat.net/forum/thread-6225.html
...but if the passphrase is totally unknown, you might wait for years...or for ever.
https://superuser.com/questions/476945/ ... passphrase
If you have a rough idea of what the passphrase should be, there are feasible methods of getting the machine to guess on your behalf...
https://hashcat.net/forum/thread-6225.html
...but if the passphrase is totally unknown, you might wait for years...or for ever.
https://superuser.com/questions/476945/ ... passphrase
Re: Attempting to retrieve files from encrypted partition
td1246,
The password would be the one you used when setting up the LUKS container, not necessarily your user login password.
The password would be the one you used when setting up the LUKS container, not necessarily your user login password.