LUKS partition is lost!

Hello,

I recently setup my OpenSUSE system with a LUKS parition as home directory. Today I reinstalled the system to downgrade to 32-bit instead of 64-bit. the LUKS partition was not detected by YAST. My new system is now setup but I have no clue how to recover my LUKS partition (it is still there with all data). The partition manager does not allow me to define a mount point… and without that step cryptsetup can not uncrypt the partition…

I googled about that problem but even if there are many people who seem to have the same problems, I couldn’t find any solutions!

what can I do now to recover it??? >:)

Uh…

I found a solution, because CryptSetup doesnt seems to need a mounted partition:

cryptsetup luksOpen /dev/sda3 restore
mkdir /restore
mount /dev/sda3 /restore

… and now save data :slight_smile: