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Today, after decrypting my encrypted drive, the system failed to boot into it.

I forget what the error said. It maybe said that it could not fine new_root or something.

I tried something like the following, by I don't know what it does.

cryptsetup reencrypt --decrypt --header new_file device_path

I'm not sure what it does and what the --header part does. It was taking too long, so interrupted with a reboot. Now its saying their device is not a valid LUKS device.

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[–] just_another_person@lemmy.world 4 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Seems like you really need to provide logs...

[–] Stanley_Pain@lemmy.dbzer0.com 7 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Stopped reading at. I don't know what the error was.

Perhaps that would be the first place to start?

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