Questions tagged [encryption]
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How to boot from existing LUKS partition? (dual boot)
I installed elementary os on my laptop that already has some OS's installed. The way I achieve this is;
I have an efi partition /dev/sda1
I have a LUKS container in /dev/sda2
The LUKS container has a ...
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(Is it possible to find out) what caused or might have caused my encrypted home folder to get unmounted?
Two days ago while I was working with OpenShot video editor that was constantly crashing, my home folder got unmounted. When I tried to access my data there were only two files in my home folder: ...
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Elementary OS 7 Horus - LUKS Volumes support (disk encryption)
I am struggling with setting up LUKS Volumes with encryption for Elementary OS 7 Horus.
I am using this tutorial: https://www.mikekasberg.com/blog/2020/04/08/dual-boot-ubuntu-and-windows-with-...
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p7zip cannot be executed
The icon of p7zip does not appear in the applications,
but if I type p7 in the search window,
it says : execute "p7zip".
I press it, and nothing happens.
I had installed it with
sudo apt ...
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I can access to elementaryOs files from outside and/or how to crypt the home folder
I need to hide my files, but from another Linux partition or linuxLive I can access to the files in the home folder. I don't want this.
I also tried to set reading right off with chmode but anyone can ...
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Encryption of multiple disk partitions
Recently I have tested many many Linux distros, and I must say to me Elementary seems to be the best in all aspects. I would love to use it, but there is an issue that bothers me:
I would love to be ...
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Disk size reported incorrectly after install with HDD encryption and replace empty disk space
During the Elementary OS installation process I checked the "Replace empty disk space" option in the disk encryption settings.
After installation the disk size shows 109 GB free.
Should the disk ...
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UEFI dual boot won't dual boot
I have a work laptop that had an encrypted partition with Windows 7 and I wanted to dual boot it with Loki. I installed Loki, but during the installation process it told me that I couldn't install it ...
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automounting encrypted partition on boot: how to make init parse crypttab before fstab?
I’m running elementaryOS 6.1 and so close to getting automounting my encrypted partition on boot and throwing in the towel.
first some context, I have /home in an encrypted partition that as a ...
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I have some features in mind about the perfect Linux OS: does elementary OS will answer to them?
I would like to know if the latest version of Elementary OS allows to:
change the Mac address of the computer on each reboot
change the Mac address every x minutes
hide any folders (and subfolders) ...
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AMD Laptop: Boot sometimes fails
I seem to have fixed this issue and posting my answer below.
TLDR: this seems to be common problem with AMD machines.
I am stuck with a boot problem I struggle to narrow down:
I installed elementary ...
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