Re: OMG! Think I did something stupid with dmcrypt

[Andrew Henry <adhenry@bredband.net>]

Andrew Sackville-West wrote:
> get annoying gnome out of the way and try it from the cli.
>
> cryptsetup luksOpen /dev/path/to/usb/device crypt-usb
>
> enter passphrase
>
> mount /dev/mapper/crypt-usb /mnt/temp
>
> and see what happens
>
> A
finally!  a voice of reason :)

I had already come to the conclusion that all was probably not lost, and
that I just needed to try it from cli.  Gnome *was* the problem on my
ubuntu desktop.  it asked for passphrase but did not mount.  After a bit
of man reading I was finally able to do exactly what you describe above.