recovering data from a luks partition
Posted: 22 Sep 2017, 21:52
Hi,
total noob and I need lots of explanations
I need to recover some data from a hdd. HDD works, it was a fully functioning luks partition and Xubuntu OS. I tried to make new encrypted disk (also, wipe the existing OS), but failed, so there is hope the fileI need is still there.
The problem I see is, I need to somehow write the passphrase (I still remember it), so I can get to see readable files. I assume I am not going to recover anything until I write the passphrase and work with the unit decrypted. If I testdisk with an encrypted unit, Im not going to see anything , correct?
So, how do I write the LUKS passphrase to recover data?
All testdisk shows now is a LVM and several, thousands of ext4 blocks (I dont know if those are blocks, because im a noob).
see
im ready to follow your instructions, if you are that kind.
total noob and I need lots of explanations
I need to recover some data from a hdd. HDD works, it was a fully functioning luks partition and Xubuntu OS. I tried to make new encrypted disk (also, wipe the existing OS), but failed, so there is hope the fileI need is still there.
The problem I see is, I need to somehow write the passphrase (I still remember it), so I can get to see readable files. I assume I am not going to recover anything until I write the passphrase and work with the unit decrypted. If I testdisk with an encrypted unit, Im not going to see anything , correct?
So, how do I write the LUKS passphrase to recover data?
All testdisk shows now is a LVM and several, thousands of ext4 blocks (I dont know if those are blocks, because im a noob).
see
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>P Linux LVM2 0 0 1 38913 80 63 625142448
P ext4 0 32 31 38391 157 36 616759296
P ext4 0 32 33 38391 157 38 616759296