Mounting HD from Live CD

[Aaron Gray]

non encrypted volume


On 12 July 2015 at 21:36, Chris Murphy <lists at colorremedies.com> wrote:
> On Sun, Jul 12, 2015 at 2:13 PM, Aaron Gray <aaronngray.lists at gmail.com> wrote:
>> How do I mount an old F21 HD which I have lost the password and work
>> on using a F21 Live CD please ?
>
> The question is vague, can you be more specific? Is this drive
> encrypted and you're talking about the encryption passphrase? Or
> you're talking about the login passphrase? If the former, there is no
> way to break that encryption. If the latter, then just mount it
> normally and copy off what you want to keep - you don't even need to
> do this with live media, any Fedora installation can do this and
> bypass the user login. You might have to use sudo cp to copy the
> contents of files for which your new user doesn't have permissions
> for; and then fix that with:
>
> sudo chown -R chris:chris /path/to/files/
>
> where chris is whatever the login+owner name is on your current system.
>
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