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This is a question related to a previous question I had asked about fixing GRUB related issues with Ubuntu.

Essentially, while I can't boot into Ubuntu installation on the laptop itself, I thought I could:

  1. Create a bootable pendrive with Ubuntu on it.
  2. Try to mount the encrypted volume from Nautilus, as mentioned in the question here.
  3. Try to copy the data from my home directory.

However, on trying this, I get the following error message:

This location could not be displayed.
You do not have the permissions necessary to view the contents of "sraje".

Any suggestions to get this to work would be tremendously helpful. As I mentioned in my original post, I have a lot of data saved on this laptop that I haven't backed up, and it's very important for me that I recover it!

Thank You

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  • You did manage to mount the volume right ? Then it should be a matter of using "sudo" either for the "cp" command on the command line, or with Nautilus. – albert j Feb 04 '17 at 17:19
  • @albertj I tried what you mentioned. However, on doing a sudo ls sraje , instead of seeing my folders, all I can see are two files, one labelled README.txt and another called Access-Your-Private-Data.desktop . I'll try posting the output of the two files in a few minutes. – shikharraje Feb 04 '17 at 18:25
  • README.txt -> https://gist.github.com/anonymous/c10ab7232fc2991767c4aa1028bed08f ; Access-Your-Private-Data.desktop -> https://gist.github.com/anonymous/9e68154fab37a3e74888f78f290c6a9d – shikharraje Feb 04 '17 at 18:29
  • Good. So, that output shows that you are using home directory encryption with ecryptfs. You need to unlock that one as well. Try e.g. this, see comments : https://askubuntu.com/questions/36573/trying-to-mount-old-encrypted-home – albert j Feb 04 '17 at 18:48

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