[ale] ecryptfs problems switching OSes

[David Lemcoe]

Thanks for the info. As it turns out, somewhere in my mounting, there was a
kernel panic, and one way or the other, my old partition which had the old
Ubuntu install (with the encrypted things) got CORRUPTED and I just lost
100+GB of data. Hmmm.

So, in conclusion, I guess that's the last time I encrypt at install.

Thanks for all the help everyone,

David

On Tue, Jul 7, 2009 at 1:52 PM, Jim Kinney <jim.kinney at gmail.com> wrote:

> So there's no way to go _back_ to the ubuntu install?
>
> The files are the encrypted ones. You may have to manual decrypt each one.
>
> It looks like you used :
>
>
> http://tombuntu.com/index.php/2008/08/07/create-an-encrypted-private-directory-with-ecryptfs/
>
> as a method to do the encryption. All I can think of is you are not
> passing back in the correct parameters on the mount.
>
> Also doublecheck that you actually have encryptfs capability loaded as
> a kernel module. Once you do the mount check dmesg and
> /var/log/messages for more info.
>
>
> On Mon, Jul 6, 2009 at 12:31 PM, David Lemcoe<forum at lemcoe.com> wrote:
> > Hello,
> >
> > I recently switched from Ubuntu to Debian, and previously had my
> /home/david
> > encrypted using ecryptfs that I configured at the time of install. Now, I
> > have installed Debian, and I cannot successfully mount the old ~/.Private
> > directory. I am using the following command:
> >
> > mount -t ecryptfs /media/disk-4/home/david/.Private/ /media/Private
> >
> > (/media/disk-4/ is the root of my old install)
> >
> > When I do this, it asks for a password, encryption method, and byte size.
> I
> > do all this, and at the end it says "Mounted eCryptfs". Now when I go to
> the
> > new mount point (/media/Private), it has the following files:
> >
> >
> ECRYPTFS_FNEK_ENCRYPTED.FWbrVieCe.NexER.VostXtx6phkZgbFMM9-y0djk9ZF4Eth2rerv0r9zSk--
> >
> ECRYPTFS_FNEK_ENCRYPTED.FWbrVieCe.NexER.VostXtx6phkZgbFMM9-y0MsQIMa42iCFwbzIUKMRmk--
> >
> ECRYPTFS_FNEK_ENCRYPTED.FWbrVieCe.NexER.VostXtx6phkZgbFMM9-y0RtRndGswxn52zE-q24bEE--
> >
> ECRYPTFS_FNEK_ENCRYPTED.FWbrVieCe.NexER.VostXtx6phkZgbFMM9-y0.tlv2flBPlovUNhgpoXSU--
> >
> ECRYPTFS_FNEK_ENCRYPTED.FWbrVieCe.NexER.VostXtx6phkZgbFMM9-y1BOhNByIpqgq0zBWb5G1Q---
> >
> ECRYPTFS_FNEK_ENCRYPTED.FWbrVieCe.NexER.VostXtx6phkZgbFMM9-y1DeEIj1NHrj1ZkOTU6kuLU--
> >
> ECRYPTFS_FNEK_ENCRYPTED.FWbrVieCe.NexER.VostXtx6phkZgbFMM9-y1fd-dFJXN0Qd7cBB2EXaIk--
> >
> ECRYPTFS_FNEK_ENCRYPTED.FWbrVieCe.NexER.VostXtx6phkZgbFMM9-y1HzTxBRLW7zLIJTnv2sCYU--
> >
> ECRYPTFS_FNEK_ENCRYPTED.FWbrVieCe.NexER.VostXtx6phkZgbFMM9-y2o3i5yJ6-7XrVjHAL5dGmk--
> >
> ECRYPTFS_FNEK_ENCRYPTED.FWbrVieCe.NexER.VostXtx6phkZgbFMM9-y4smc7MqH-qytpbU0XDSV8k--
> >
> ECRYPTFS_FNEK_ENCRYPTED.FWbrVieCe.NexER.VostXtx6phkZgbFMM9-y5D46sn-eQQbhvNostL7MSE--
> >
> ECRYPTFS_FNEK_ENCRYPTED.FWbrVieCe.NexER.VostXtx6phkZgbFMM9-y5XSmUTdyrqAA831CTSqM4U--
> >
> ECRYPTFS_FNEK_ENCRYPTED.FWbrVieCe.NexER.VostXtx6phkZgbFMM9-y6YwIQ1ymXF8LA5d1W6mJxE--
> >
> ECRYPTFS_FNEK_ENCRYPTED.FWbrVieCe.NexER.VostXtx6phkZgbFMM9-y7OlI7HnS1lcBp.CknZTWf---
> >
> ECRYPTFS_FNEK_ENCRYPTED.FWbrVieCe.NexER.VostXtx6phkZgbFMM9-y7TPFVCQnRQFZC8CWhrbPhE--
> >
> ECRYPTFS_FNEK_ENCRYPTED.FWbrVieCe.NexER.VostXtx6phkZgbFMM9-y.8G2vhJKqlj1rH7sY0bs0U--
> > ......
> >
> > and many more....
> >
> > What am I doing wrong? I really need my old files.
> >
> > Thank you in advance,
> >
> > David
> >
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