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No permissions - Did I bonk my LUKS encryption? (lemmy.ml)

submitted 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) by drid@lemmy.ml to c/linux@lemmy.ml

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Hello Linux Helpdesk. ;)

I use Fedora (currently 40), and have done for a while.

I always LUKS+Ext4 encrypt my local drive and decided to do the same to my external hard drive.

Last week I reinstalled Fedora 40 from a Bootable USB, but when I tried to access my files om my external drive it now gives me the error

You do not have permission to view the content of "Files".

I've read online it's due to me no longer being the "Owner" of the drive I was in my previous install of Fedora and now I'm a different user and apparently no users a part from Owner have any permissions on an EXT4+LUKS drive.

Is there any way to give myself permission to see the content again or did I bonk my backup? As a note, I DO have the correct Luks password, it shows me the name of the encrypted disk after decrypting, which is "Files"

Thank you in advance.

Edit: Thank you everybody, thanks to you I've been able to rescue my files. Y'all deserve a great day!

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[–] HumanPerson@sh.itjust.works 6 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

this is a file permission issue, nothing to do with LUKS. The solution should be to access the files as root. You could use the command "Sudo chmod a+rwx /path/to/drive" to set completely accessible file permissions, which is not a best practice typically, but would be fine here since the drive's encrypted.

[–] lurch@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 month ago

root can always access them. it's exactly for solving these kind of maintainance and repair tasks.

btw don't forget to make backups. repairing things can go sideways.