From: tmg <t.m.gerlach@freenet.de>
To: ecryptfs@vger.kernel.org
Subject: File recovery via testdisk / photorec
Date: Thu, 11 Feb 2016 21:15:23 +0000 (UTC) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <loom.20160211T215847-237@post.gmane.org> (raw)
Dear developers and users,
I've searched a lot around the web, but didn't find any satisfying answer.
Consider the following situation:
- You have your home directory /home/<user> encrypted with ecryptfs
- You know your passphrase, that is, no trouble to decrypt the directory
Question: How do you recover deleted files from the mounted (decrypted) home
or the ecryptfs container?
All the ecryptfs recover strategies I've read so far were like
- use a livecd
- go and fire ecryptfs-recover-private, and mount your home readonly
- copy your files to a save place
But what about files that I can't regularly copy, because they are deleted?
If it was an unencrypted ext4, I would do (using ubuntu)
$ dd if=/dev/sda of=/media/user/sda.img
$ testdisk /media/user/sda.img
Can we run testdisk on the .ecryptfs container, or even the mounted home?
Thank you for any suggestion and best regards,
TMG
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