[vox-tech] In need of assistance with partition ownership adjustment, please

[Douglas Walter]

That's reasonable, given the results, but not reasonable for what I 
believe that I did: I would not choose to encrypt a drive! I always 
figure that my habits are the best protection (do not take my laptop 
many places), and that anyone with physical access and a desire can 
probably break my "locks."

Now, about /your/ question...

On 1/2/23 16:03, Alex Mandel wrote:
> Doug,
>
> I don't think this is a matter of ownership, but rather encryption. Do 
> you recall when you setup the OS what encryption settings you picked 
> for this drive?
> Does the drive in question contain any files you will miss? If not 
> reformatting and remounting it would probably be the easiest solution.
So, I have all sorts of files on the HD that I cherish, but only in the 
Windows partition (a few) and the small Elementary partition (all of 
which can be re-backed up). The 174GB Encrypted Drive is (AFAIK) empty. 
Is it possible to reformat and remount just that partition? (Follow up: 
how?)
>
>
> Thanks,
> Alex
>
>
> On 12/27/22 15:23, Douglas Walter wrote:
>> Hi folks. Happy end-of-2022 to you, and best wishes for a "fossy" New 
>> Year.
>>
>> In the fall, I set up a Dell laptop with Elementary Linux in a 
>> separate hard disk partition from the Windows that it came with. (I 
>> got this as a "salvage" computer from my then-work; I don't believe 
>> there was any problem with the OS, I just had no desire to use it for 
>> my personal computing.)
>>
>> In the setup, I made a separate partition for most of the storage 
>> space on the HD, because it was recommended that the files for the OS 
>> be apart. I did something wrong with ownership of that 174 GB storage 
>> partition, though. I can "see" it as a disk named "174 GB Encrypted" 
>> but I cannot access it. Consequently, I have enough room to send and 
>> receive email, but not curate a lot of music or videos.
>>
>> The Elementary setup used GParted and I have downloaded a copy of it 
>> to, potentially, run and make changes. But I don't know to what I 
>> should change the ownership of the "Encrypted" partition; clearly, I 
>> should change it to something I can access, but I'm pretty clear that 
>> I don't understand the disk structure and permissions well enough to 
>> be sure of what I'd doing.
>>
>> I would appreciate guidance. In particular, I'd love to get the kind 
>> of access to expertise that used to be available at "Installfests" - 
>> although I understand why LUGOD isn't running any of those now! If 
>> someone is comfortable contacting me at this address, we can take the 
>> conversation off the list - unless there are others who want to find 
>> out how I climb out of this "HD hole." Thanks in advance.
>>
>
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Doug Walter, home account,dawalter at dcn.org
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