Hi I'm trying to access my home directory on my laptop hard drive through a live usb. I cannot boot into the OS on the hard drive and the home and root directory is encrypted. I have the encryption key but when I try to run the tool to gain access it pops up for a second then disappears and when I run the command in Terminal it says "Encrypted private directory is not setup properly". What are my options on getting into the directory? I really need to get the data off my laptop.
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How do I mount an encrypted /home directory on another Ubuntu machine? – Brent Bradburn Nov 18 '18 at 05:25
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After many days of worry and trying to follow many other guides this one worked perfectly! http://www.howtogeek.com/116297/how-to-recover-an-encrypted-home-directory-on-ubuntu/ – EXbob Apr 25 '15 at 05:55
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I had a similar issue. I was able to solve it using the instructions here:
http://deferred.io/posts/2013/01/06/recovering-ecryptfs-home-dir.html
The key for me was to first navigate to:
/media/(mypartition)/home/.ecryptfs/(foldername)
before I ran the command:
sudo ecryptfs-recover-private .Private/
Before I just navigated to /media and ran
sudo ecryptfs-recover-private (mypartition)
I entered my passphrase and I received a SUCCESS notification. Unfortunately, I was still unable to access /tmp/ecryptfs.(randomcharacters)
It took me two days to finally find a solution that worked.
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2If you get a "mount: /tmp/ecryptfs.MV9Ov7BQ: mount(2) system call failed: No such file or directory." error, run
sudo ecryptfs-manager, just exit with pressing 4 and then runsudo ecryptfs-recover-private .Private/again. Credits to the commenter at https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/285541/mount-no-such-file-or-directory-with-encrypted-recovery – SlimDeluxe Oct 27 '19 at 08:05