Try using cryptsetup open
and see if you get a meaningful error.
Use cryptsetup --help
to get information on the exact syntax you need to unlock it.
It seems You are on KDE DE ?
Otherwise you can use gnome-disks to open encryption and mount graphically encrypted partitions …
i can’t do it can you help with exact command
It is something like:
sudo cryptsetup open /dev/sdxn myluks
Replace /dev/sdxn
with the block device that has luks on it.
If you don’t know what that is then please share the output of lsblk -o name,fstype,label,type,size
sda1 crypto_LUKS part 226.7G
$ sudo cryptsetup open /dev/sda1 myluks
[sudo] password for ararch:
Enter passphrase for /dev/sda1:
nothing happend
So now it is unlocked. You can mount it now. It should have created a new block device /dev/mapper/myluks
. Mount that somewhere.
$ sudo cryptsetup open /dev/sda1 myluks
[sudo] password for ararch:
Enter passphrase for /dev/sda1:
$ sudo mount /dev/mapper/myluks /mnt/myluks
mount: /mnt/myluks: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on /dev/mapper/myluks, missing codepage or helper program, or other error.
dmesg(1) may have more information after failed mount system call.
Can we see lsblk -o name,type,fstype,size,mountpoint
$ lsblk -o name,type,fstype,size,mountpoint
NAME TYPE FSTYPE SIZE MOUNTPOINT
sda disk 931.5G
├─sda1 part crypto_LUKS 226.7G
│ └─myluks crypt 226.7G
├─sda3 part 1K
├─sda4 part ext4 390.1G
├─sda5 part btrfs 146.5G
├─sda6 part ext4 300M /boot
└─sda7 part btrfs 166.9G /
sr0 rom 1024M
zram0 disk 1.7G [SWAP]
What filesystem was on that luks device?
It is either corrupt or it is something that lsblk can’t recognize.
Also, why do you have a 1k partition?
this was a /boot now it has no use
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