Re: Deencrypting /home....

On 11/02/13 13:04, Thomi Richards wrote:
> 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.

That is helpful.

Turns out that the new systen would boot off the old disc, whew!  So 
using rsync to move my home directory.

W

>
>
> 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
>


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