Mounting HD from Live CD

[Aaron Gray]

I just need to mount an unencrypted F"! volume on a Live F21 Distro

On 12 July 2015 at 22:07, Aaron Gray <aaronngray.lists at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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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