On Friday 29 April 2005 01:51, Shannon wrote:
OK !! Suse Gods & Gurus
I have posted this question many times to reiser.com (in the very best plain english possible) yet no-one understands what the hell I'm talking about...
Hyperthetical: I installed suse 9.2, configuring the partitions, during the installation, as follows: / 20GB ReiserFS /home 70GB ReiserFS Encrypted /swap 300MB swap
My / partition is destroyed during the Suse9.3 upgrade.
Define destroyed.
My /home directory is lost forever because I don't have the crypto/encryption key to match my password.
Some of the replies have had me nearly in tears. I don't want to know how to back up personal data or require any lessons on tar.
I basically want to know where is the encryption key is stored or What should I have done or what config files should I have backed up. When I encrypt a partition, there has to be a key/password stored somewhere....
I'm assuming you are referring to this? (watch the wrap) http://support.novell.com/cgi-bin/search/searchtid.cgi?/en/2001/06/ jsj_crypto_filesystem_mini_howto.html Check your SUSE 9.3 box. Mine had a piece of paper in it that talked about incompatibilities with respect to crypto file systems and SUSE 9.3 upgrade. I don't use crypto file systems so I didn't pay too much attention to it. Do you have the paper? I don't have the box at home with me. Though I'm sure someone can speak up and reiterate the language on the paper I'm referring to. I would certainly suggest that you not fool with the / partition until you know exactly what you need to do to recover your file systems -- assuming that is possible. Data recovery can be easy at times, and challenging at others. -- Christopher Shanahan
cheers..