On 2023-10-03 15:05, David T-G wrote:
Hi, all --
A student of ours gave us a Western Digital disk so that we could deliver his files ... but it's an encrypted volume that only shows up as an 8M read-only sr0. Any thoughts on mounting it, presuming he gives me the passphrase, before I just throw it back at him? We don't do that steenking encryption stuff :-) and I am absolutely at ground zero.
If it is LUKS, Linux knows about that and will ask for the password when the desktop tries to mount it. If it is some Windows thing, who knows. I'm guessing it is some WD proprietary thing, and the 8MB open partition contains the windows setup program. Do you see something there? You could try: lsblk --output NAME,KNAME,RA,RM,RO,PARTFLAGS,SIZE,TYPE,FSTYPE,LABEL,PARTLABEL,PTTYPE,MOUNTPOINT,UUID,PARTUUID,WWN,MODEL,SERIAL,HCTL,ALIGNMENT /dev/something then "file -s /dev/something" -- Cheers / Saludos, Carlos E. R. (from openSUSE 15.5 (Laicolasse))