Re: Deencrypting /home....
Thomi Richards <[email protected]>
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Hi Worik On 11 February 2013 12:10, Worik Stanton <[email protected]> wrote: > I have the old disc mounted, but how do I un-encrypt it? (I have the > password of course) I don't have any experience with this personally, but the research I've done online suggests that: 1) for removeable devices, recent versions of gnome will "just work" and ask you for your password. I appreciate that this isn't the case here, but it's kinda cool anyway :) 2) According to [1], your encrypted partition might appear under "/dev/mapper/<name>" - in which case you may be able to mount this block device manually with the "mount" command. something like: mount -t ext3 /dev/mapper/name /mnt Otherwise, the steps on that page should give you some avenues of research. 3) If all else fails, you could try booting Ubuntu into the Live CD mode, decrypt your home partition (I'm assuming it will "just work"), and then copy the contents to a new, unencrypted partition. Sorry I can't be more helpful. Cheers, [1] http://ubuntu-tutorials.com/2007/08/17/7-steps-to-an-encrypted-partition-local-or-removable-disk/ -- Thomi Richards _______________________________________________ DunLUG mailing list [email protected] http://lists.ethernal.org/listinfo/dunlug DunLUG Wiki - http://dunlug.kallisti.net.nz/