Kim Crawley (she/her) 😷🍉Help me, please! This is my Reddit thread. This is a crisis.
If you cannot provide me tech support, then please share this post for signal boosting.
Thank you.
the esoteric programmer@crowgirl I could barely load that page because of the js and stuff like that, but from what I'm reading there, you have issues with losing the key to an encrypted partition? are you sure you have the correct partition type for what the issue is? what does the file command say when you point it at the encrypted partition?
@esoteric_programmer Partition type? It's an ext4 main Linux OS partition.
@crowgirl how do you know if it's encrypted then? it shouldn't have just ext4 there. Does the file command on the partition show you an ext4 filesystem without luks?
@esoteric_programmer I wrongly assumed it was encrypted.
@crowgirl so, why do you think the files are unreadable? did you run fsck on the partition?
@crowgirl aha, chown! although it's weird that your files got changed to root in the first place, very interesting. Do you remember running interesting commands before that happened? ah well, the nvidia drivers, maybe the install script for those did that? unsure