Re: OMG! Think I did something stupid with dmcrypt

Andrew Henry <adhenry@bredband.net> writes:

>

LUKS stores the encrypted master key (generally decryptable by supplying just the passphrase, though it's possible for a keyfile to be used) in a header at the start of the partition. So, you probably haven't lost your data.

But why are we talking about this? Have you tried sticking your bloody USB stick in a Linux machine and mounting the partition? If you need to do it manually:

        cryptsetup luksOpen /dev/sda1 mydata
        ...enter passphrase when prompted...
        mount /dev/mapper/mydata /mnt
        ls /mnt

where "/dev/sda1" is the partition.

Good luck!

-- 
Kevin 


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