Opening LUKS encrypted drive in nautilus results in "operation cancelled"
Scrolling through one of the related questions I found an answer that worked.
sudo cryptsetup luksOpen /dev/sdb3 my_encrypted_volume
sudo vgimportclone /dev/mapper/my_encrypted_volume
This latter output a bunch of scary WARNING
until
Volume group "ubuntu-vg" successfully renamed to "ubuntu-vg1"
Notifying lvmetad about changes since it was disabled temporarily.
(This resolves any WARNING message about restarting lvmetad that appears above.)
Reading all physical volumes. This may take a while...
Found volume group "ubuntu-vg" using metadata type lvm2
Found volume group "ubuntu-vg1" using metadata type lvm2
I then ran sudo vgchange -ay
(possibly unnecessarily) and then ran
sudo mount /dev/ubuntu-vg1/root /media/my_device/
And voila! The drive appeared in Nautilus
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raphael
Updated on September 18, 2022Comments
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raphael almost 2 years
I'm on a Ubuntu 16.04 computer with a LUKS encrypted drive trying to mount an old Ubuntu 16.04 LUKS encrypted drive. When I open the drive in Nautilus, after entering the correct password I get the following pop-up error
Unable to access “127 GB Encrypted” Operation cancelled
Relevant? output of
sudo fdisk -l
after doingsudo cryptsetup luksOpen /dev/sdb3 my_encrypted_volume
:Disk /dev/sdb: 119.2 GiB, 128035676160 bytes, 250069680 sectors Units: sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 33553920 bytes Disklabel type: gpt Disk identifier: 1D78C9DC-B51C-4729-8D7D-BB2B7C207511 Device Start End Sectors Size Type /dev/sdb1 2048 1050623 1048576 512M EFI System /dev/sdb2 1050624 1550335 499712 244M Linux filesystem /dev/sdb3 1550336 250068991 248518656 118.5G Linux filesystem Disk /dev/mapper/my_encrypted_volume: 118.5 GiB, 127239454720 bytes, 248514560 sectors
I've tried a number of answers from Mount encrypted volumes from command line? without success.
If I do the accepted answer
(this one)
udisksctl unlock -b /dev/sdb5 udisksctl mount -b /dev/mapper/ubuntu-root
I get something like
Object /org/freedesktop/UDisks2/block_devices/dm_2d3 is not a mountable filesystem.
If I do the highest voted answer
(this one)
sudo cryptsetup luksOpen /dev/sdb3 my_encrypted_volume sudo mkdir /media/my_device sudo mount /dev/mapper/my_encrypted_volume /media/my_device
I get
mount: unknown filesystem type 'LVM2_member'
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dajavex71 over 7 yearsHave you tried to specify the option --filesystem-type ?
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raphael over 7 years@dajavex71 I did not. Care to elaborate?
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dajavex71 over 7 yearsYou stated the following is received: I get something like Object /org/freedesktop/UDisks2/block_devices/dm_2d3 is not a mountable filesystem., My thought is that it needs to be told what type of filesystem, in order for the mount to be successful. Example: ext4, ext3, etc
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raphael over 7 yearsSame error if I try
udisksctl mount --filesystem-type luks -b /dev/dm-4
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dajavex71 over 7 yearsI think we need additional information.from the terminal prompt, what is the output of the following: `sudo fdisk --list'?
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danielleontiev over 7 yearsTry to unlock it with
cryptsetup luksOpen
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raphael over 7 yearsUpdated in response to both your questions
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Gohu about 6 yearsWorked for me. Also, the
vgchange -ay
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Michael Scheper over 5 yearsWorked for me on Mint 19, but now I'm trying to undo it, so I can remove the drive and insert another.
sudo umount /media/my_device
works, but thensudo vgchange -a n mint-vg
complains that 'Logical volume mint-vg/root contains a filesystem in use. Can't deactivate volume group "mint-vg" with 2 open logical volume(s)'. So how do I deactivate it? Usinglvchange
somehow, maybe? And then, I assume, it'ssudo vgremove -f /dev/mapper/my_encrypted_volume
andsudo cryptsetup luksClose my_encrypted_volume
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d.lime about 5 yearsRunning this:
sudo vgimportclone /dev/mapper/my_encrypted_volume
Resulted in this:Device /dev/mapper/my_encrypted_volume has active LVs, deactivate first.
To solve it, I've runsudo gparted
, right click on the encrypted partition and "Deactivate". Hope it will help somebody in my same situation (I guess there's a command line for it too)