Questions tagged [luks]
Questions specific to LUKS (Linux Unified Key Setup) disk-encryption specification in general, such as setup questions or questions about how LUKS works. Use this tag if your question directly involves the LUKS disk encryption; do not use it if you just happen to be using an encrypted LUKS disk and your question is about a specific Linux configuration.
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Resizing encrypted system partition on Linux Ubuntu
How can I resize an LUKS encrypted system partition? Is it as simple as resizing (shrinking more specifically) using a tool such as Gparted? I found some guides, but they all assumed a LVM layer, ...
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mkfs.ext4 deleted my filesystems, how can i recover data?
Iam trying to recover my data and need help/advice on how to do it. The details of my issue are as below My disk was partitioned as below - sda1 - 487MB, primary bootable type 83 sda2 - 240G , ...
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Replacing a 500GB SSD LUKS/LVM drive in place with 1TB SSD
I have a ThinkPad T520 running Fedora with a single 500GB SSD drive. The drive has two partitions, a small boot partition and the rest devoted to a a single LUKS one. The LUKS partition is managed ...
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Our server has been luks encrypted on its own [closed]
We have a customer oracle 8 server that has been running for over 5 years. We received a call that there was an issue, we could not remotely access the server so we did a physical visit and found this ...
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LUKS keyslot damaged?
I have two LUKS-encrypted SSDs in my laptop: one is the system SSD (nvme0n1), which contains my Home folder encrypted with eCryptfs, and the other is a Data SSD (nvme1n1), which is fully LUKS-...
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How to set up dual boot with Pop!_OS and Arch Linux on encrypted partitions?
I currently have Pop!_OS 22.04 installed on an unencrypted ext4 partition. I want to set up a dual boot system where both Pop!_OS and Arch Linux use encrypted partitions. Current setup: nvme0n1p1: ...
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What things can i do with a gpu? [closed]
Is there a way to use a NVidia GPU for: Compress/Decompress a .rar Archive? Create and open a LUKS Device? Compile Code with GCC? Or for what computationally intensive tasks can i use a gpu with linux?...
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Can I automatically unlock a user's personal luks partition on login and lock on logout?
On a multi-user desktop system, having users alice and bob, each has their own encrypted partition /dev/sda1 and /dev/sdb1 that need to be mounted to /home/alice/data and /home/bob/data respectively. /...
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