Mounting encrypted drive/partition on Linux

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I have a Laptop, on which the OS has got corrupted and gives a system32\config not found error.

To recover my data, I can boot it using Knoppix but I am not able to mount my partition.

My partition is NTFS encrypted with McAfee Endpoint encryption. is there any way I can mount this partition specifying the password?

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the only way to get at the data on a drive encrypted with mcafee endpoint protection is to use mcafee's utilities. depending on the options used to encrypt the drive, you can either boot with their recovery program (which i think is called safetech) and type in your username and password, or you will need the recovery file generated during the original encryption process.

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Solaris, ZFS, Encrypted Boot to Secure Off Site Servers

There's no support for an encrypted ZFS boot filesystem yet:

http://hub.opensolaris.org/bin/view/Project+zfs-crypto/WebHome

You can encrypt everything else including the swap and dump, so if someone grabbed a drive, they could only get some useless OS files.

Linux – CentOS / Redhat 6 Mount Encrypted Partition After Boot

You need to add the noauto option to the filesystem in your fstab. That will prevent the automounter, or anything that calls or simulates a mount -a, from mounting it. However, since auto is part of the defaults option set, you should replace it entirely with the explicit options, minus auto. Pulling the full set from the man page, your new entry should look something like:

/dev/mapper/luks-4fa25d53-0dcd-44ab-9f4d-bee5d6f90fce /sec   ext4    rw,suid,dev,exec,nouser,async,noauto     1 2

Now, whether including dev, suid, and exec are appropriate for your file system is something you should consider.

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Solaris, ZFS, Encrypted Boot to Secure Off Site Servers

Linux – CentOS / Redhat 6 Mount Encrypted Partition After Boot

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