Manually Mount LUKS Encrypted Logical Volumes
Introduction This post explains how you can manually open a LUKS encrypted logical volume, which can be useful if your encrypted system does not properly boot and you are trying to fix it from a live Linux or if you want to access an encrypted disk from another system. The following steps were performed using the live Linux Grml 1 on a system with LUKS full disk encryption that contains one volume group and several logical volumes. More information can be found in the manpages of the used tools 2 3 4 5 6. ...