Hello! I have a external drive I’ve encrypted with LUKs that has irreplaceable backups of mine, and for some reason no matter which PC I try it won’t unlock despite it being the correct password. It doesn’t give me anything else in the terminal other than what I put in the title.

I recently just backed up everything onto the external drive from my computer cause I was distro hopping. It’s worked fine on my PC, I saved the password so I was able to mount it no problem before, but now it won’t mount on any other PC I try. It isn’t the end of the world since I can just try and copy old data from my computers drive before the format since I haven’t downloaded anything yet that could overwrite anything important, but I’d still like to be able to get this external drive unlocked. As I’ve said, irreplaceable files of mine are on it so I’m hoping to get it working. Thank you!

  • just_another_person@lemmy.world
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    7 days ago

    Need more info:

    • How did you encrypt it in the first place
    • What command are you using to try and mount it now?
    • Do you have any other identifying LUKS info about the volume? (sudo blkid /dev/whatever)
    • helpmyusernamewontfi@lemmy.todayOP
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      7 days ago

      I encrypted it using Gnome Disks, haven’t had any problems with it for years until now

      I tried mounting it normally with Dolphin on KDE Plasma, after it was giving me an error I tried unlocking it in terminal via sudo cryptsetup luksOpen /dev/sda1 backups

      Here’s the output of the command you sent: /dev/sda1: UUID="109ffa3d-6181-43cf-a813-fdd285386866" TYPE="crypto_LUKS" PARTUUID="ac0402f1-01"

      • just_another_person@lemmy.world
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        7 days ago

        Are you typing this passphrase by chance? Do you have it saved somewhere that you’re positive is correct?

        Try typing it out in a terminal window and see if it matches what you have saved. Special characters and incorrect keyboard mappings could be problematic.