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PostPosted: Sun Jun 03, 2012 10:26 am    Post subject: How do I mount an encrypted fs from Live DVD? Reply with quote

I think the subject sums it up well. I am playing with the 12.1 Hybrid Live DVD on a 64bit i7 laptop before installing. I have used a number of distros in the past but this is my first foray with gentoo.

My home is encrypted on a separate partition and would like to mount it from the the Live DVD. Of course I have the key. How would I go about doing this?
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PostPosted: Sun Jun 03, 2012 11:37 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Encrypted how? Luks?
Code:
cryptsetup luksOpen /dev/$cryptedpartition $somename [-d /path/to/keyfile]
If you omit a keyfile, you'd be asked to enter the passphrase by hand.

If that worked,
Code:
mount /dev/mapper/$somename /some/path

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PostPosted: Wed Jun 20, 2012 5:21 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

avx wrote:
Encrypted how? Luks?
Code:
cryptsetup luksOpen /dev/$cryptedpartition $somename [-d /path/to/keyfile]
If you omit a keyfile, you'd be asked to enter the passphrase by hand.

If that worked,
Code:
mount /dev/mapper/$somename /some/path


Unfortunately didn't work. Someone mentioned in another thread that Ubuntu encrypts by ecryptfs. Would you know how I could mount using that?
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