Re: Need help recovering encrypted volume

[Tracy R Reed <treed@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

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Tracy R Reed wrote:
> Question: Will debugfs refuse to undelete the file if any portion of it
> has been overwritten by other disk activity? Or will it recover a

Right after sending this email it occurred to me that I could run
strings on the undeleted file and see if anything interesting showed up.
 Sure enough right at the very beginning of the file is what looks like
a bash history file. If it weren't for bad luck I would have no luck at all!

So it looks like it comes down to my ancient backup from DVD. Strings on
that file shows nothing but apparent randomness, not that I would expect
anything else because I am sure the backup is good. So I am really
scratching my head over why it won't mount.

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Tracy R Reed
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