How to Recover Deleted Files on a LUKS Encrypted System Drive?
Posted: 12 Jan 2019, 16:26
Hello everyone,
I am trying to recover some photos and videos that I accidentally deleted, which were in /home/user/downloads and /home/user/ locations on my encrypted Linux system SSD.
As illustrated in the linked picture below there are a number of different media options to choose for the same drive in PhotoRec.
I have tried every one of those media options, and I tried recovering from all of their presented partition options as well (including Unknown ... [Whole disk]). I also tried both [ ext2/ext3 ] and [ Other ] filesystem options for each. All of the attempted file recoveries were saved to /dev/sda HDD, with separate folders for each.
For all of the above I tried [Options ] set to "Keep corrupted files : Yes" with all else left at default, and for [File Opt] I chose various image and video file types for the first series of recovery attempts and then all file types for the second. None of these recovery attempts have returned any of the files I'm after, despite them only being deleted a few days ago (10+GB worth and very little has written to the SSD since AFAIK).
I should mention that I've also tried TestDisk as well with no luck, and I've tried Google'ing for hours in search of a solution. I'm at wit's end now.
Any help at all would be immensely appreciated. Thanks guys!
I am trying to recover some photos and videos that I accidentally deleted, which were in /home/user/downloads and /home/user/ locations on my encrypted Linux system SSD.
As illustrated in the linked picture below there are a number of different media options to choose for the same drive in PhotoRec.
I have tried every one of those media options, and I tried recovering from all of their presented partition options as well (including Unknown ... [Whole disk]). I also tried both [ ext2/ext3 ] and [ Other ] filesystem options for each. All of the attempted file recoveries were saved to /dev/sda HDD, with separate folders for each.
For all of the above I tried [Options ] set to "Keep corrupted files : Yes" with all else left at default, and for [File Opt] I chose various image and video file types for the first series of recovery attempts and then all file types for the second. None of these recovery attempts have returned any of the files I'm after, despite them only being deleted a few days ago (10+GB worth and very little has written to the SSD since AFAIK).
I should mention that I've also tried TestDisk as well with no luck, and I've tried Google'ing for hours in search of a solution. I'm at wit's end now.
Any help at all would be immensely appreciated. Thanks guys!