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When I had boot issues with my Pop!_OS installation, I was able to use my MintStick (Linux Mint live USB) to troubleshoot and fix the problem. The Mint Team always includes a number of very useful tools for troubleshooting problems on their live USB. In this case, perhaps Disks or GParted might help where SMART data is concerned?
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I'm considering doing this in the future, because it just causes too many headaches when something goes pear-shaped... My understanding is that for most "mainstream" distros, the default encryption used isn't all that strong, anyway.
Well, I've had a partial win - using this solution, I was able to decrypt my storage drive from a "live" session... But I can't seem to mount the storage drive using this command (as per the 'Ask Ubuntu' answer ):
udisksctl mount -b /dev/mapper/ubuntu--vg-root
If I had to take a guess, I'd say it's because I'm running Pop!_OS and not Ubuntu; but even when I tried "pop" and "popos", I was given the following errors:
Error looking up object for device /dev/mapper/pop--vg-root
Error looking up object for device /dev/mapper/popos--vg-root
Any ideas what I should use instead of "ubuntu"?
I think that if I can mount the drive from within the "live" session, manually backup the data and then do a "clean" install, I can work around this problem... It's not the perfect solution by any stretch of the imagination, but one which keeps my data safe.
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Last edited by Pengling on 27 October 2024 at 11:31 pm UTC
Optionally switch to root:
$ sudo su -
If you skip above, just append sudo to the following.
Start by listing your partitions:
Note: This will work fine on bash, but zsh may throw a no matches found if one of those are missing, in that case just remove the missing one. For example: $ fdisk -l /dev/sd*
$ fdisk -l /dev/{hd*,sd*,nvm*}
This will show partitions from all regular drives, now read through it until you find your drive (See disk model). Under that you'll see a list of partitions, for example it might read "/dev/sda3"
There will probably be multiple partitions on your boot drive, some listed as "EFI System" and such. Try the largest partition first that says "Linux filesystem" or "unknown" (Unknown can occur in some LUKS setups, and does not indicate a problem in that case).
The largest one may be /dev/sda3 for example. Let's try to unlock it:
$ cryptsetup luksOpen /dev/sda3 data3
Let's mount it:
$ mkdir /mnt/data3
$ mount -t auto /dev/mapper/data3 /mnt/data3
If successful you should now see your data in /mnt/data:
$ ls /mnt/data3
On most configurations the largest partition is probably your home directory. Repeat the process for other smaller partitions if they exist, replacing "3" with the partition number, for example to mount an encrypted /dev/sda2:
$ cryptsetup luksOpen /dev/sda2 data2
$ mkdir /mnt/data2
$ mount -t auto /dev/mapper/data2 /mnt/data2
This will likely be your filesystem root ( / ) directory. You can swap and change then numbers or devices as needed, the process is the same.
When done, for each one just do:
$ umount /mnt/data2
$ cryptsetup luksClose data2
While swapping numbers as needed. :-)
Something like GNOME Disks, as suggested previously by Caldathras, works for for a traditional drive (mechanical or SSD). For NVMe you probably need a cli tool like "nvme" or "smartctl".
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It worked all the way up until this point...
When I entered:
mount -t auto /dev/mapper/data3 /mnt/data3
I was told:
mount: /mnt/data3: unknown filesystem type 'LVM2_member'.
Joking aside. That's actually really good news! It means your LUKS encryption header is intact and the data can be decrypted.
Follow the instructions I gave above up to the point of mount. We just need to mount it slightly differently. The logical volumes *should* be automatically picked up. So I'll explain that way first.
This time after creating /mnt/data3, do this:
$ lvdisplay
This should output the logical volume(s), each one with its own LV Path, something like "/dev/data/root" for example.
To mount, simply use the path shown next to "LV Path". For example if it is "/dev/data/root":
$ mount /dev/data/root /mnt/data3
This should mount. Now check it:
$ ls /mnt/data3
Hopefully this gets you to your files. This should be all that is needed on a healthy setup.
Last edited by BlackBloodRum on 31 October 2024 at 7:12 pm UTC
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root@pop-os:/home/pop-os# lvdisplay
--- Logical volume ---
LV Path /dev/data/root
LV Name root
VG Name data
LV UUID PFMI6C-AhIh-lSgl-4CUa-2nbc-0Qok-9mFwYL
LV Write Access read/write
LV Creation host, time pop-os, 2024-08-16 09:22:16 +0000
LV Status available
# open 0
LV Size <944.85 GiB
Current LE 241881
Segments 1
Allocation inherit
Read ahead sectors auto
- currently set to 256
Block device 252:1
root@pop-os:/home/pop-os# mount /dev/data/root /mnt/data3
mount: /mnt/data3: mount point does not exist.
root@pop-os:/home/pop-os# mount /dev/data/root /mnt/data
mount: /mnt/data: mount point does not exist.
$ mkdir /mnt/data
$ mount /dev/data/root /mnt/data
This should get that mounted.