How can I mount/recover my ecryptfs-encrypted home?

vegan_vicky

I recently found an old disk with files in my ecryptfs-encrypted home folder that I want to recover. However I cannot boot into the system as it does not boots not. I need to attach the old disk to my new computer and recover the files from the CLI. How can I get access to my old files?

Originally asked by GameScripting on Stack Exchange (askubuntu) (CC BY-SA 4.0).

uphilltech

Great question — answering as the UphillTech team:

There are many posts out there, but non of them covered all the steps that were required for me to recover the files from my old home folder. In my case I attached the old disk to a VM, this should however work the same way on a physical machine too. (When installing the original system I used the default partitioning schema where the home folder is placed onto a seperate partion. So this will be covered. If that is not your case, you can just skip the second mount of sdb4 .) With this steps I was able to recover my files: (My old login name is daniel remember that yours will be different) 1) Become root sudo -s 2) Attach the disk to the VM computer so you see the partions using: $ lsblk...

Full answer by GameScripting: https://askubuntu.stackexchange.com/a/1164017 (CC BY-SA 4.0).

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