File Recovery from Corrupt ecryptfs Drive
by jritts from LinuxQuestions.org on (#5PBZG)
I recently had a massive hardware failure on my primary SSD drive.
Using safecopy, I made an image of the /home partition, which was encrypted with ecryptfs. I get errors when attempting to mount the .ISO image, related to bad blocks which are present.
Currently running scalpel in an attempt to recover pdf, doc, and odt files, odt being the most important to me.
The trouble is with the encryption . . . I'm pretty sure scalpel won't be able to carve the files out given this.
I have my login phrase but not the "wrapper" file that was used, and I am not confident that file can be recovered. Even if it is, how could I go about carving files from an encrypted image?
Any help is greatly appreciated. I've learned a hard lesson and will be keeping regular backups, and won't buy off brand storage devices again.
Using safecopy, I made an image of the /home partition, which was encrypted with ecryptfs. I get errors when attempting to mount the .ISO image, related to bad blocks which are present.
Currently running scalpel in an attempt to recover pdf, doc, and odt files, odt being the most important to me.
The trouble is with the encryption . . . I'm pretty sure scalpel won't be able to carve the files out given this.
I have my login phrase but not the "wrapper" file that was used, and I am not confident that file can be recovered. Even if it is, how could I go about carving files from an encrypted image?
Any help is greatly appreciated. I've learned a hard lesson and will be keeping regular backups, and won't buy off brand storage devices again.