Hello, in trouble again. I appear to have trashed my system and I think the easiest way for me is just to reinstall the software packages.

However, I have lvm over Luks partitions.

In dev I have
/dev/control
/dev/crypthome
/dev/cryptroot
/dev/slack13--group-home
/dev/slack13--group-root
/dev/slack13--group-swap
/dev/slack13--group-usr
/dev/slack13-group

Now I know how to do an install WHILE creating the luks/lvm partitions but how do I proceed when I already have all this and want to install on my existing lvm partitions? How do I activate the lvg so I can map it when I run setup for partitioning/mounting step?! Hope you can understand my not too technical description.

Thanks in advance for all advise, really appreciated. BashTin.

# vgscan --mknodes
# vgchange -ay

and

# lvscan

would give you a list of active Logical Volumes

# cryptsetup luksOpen /dev/sdx2 slackluks

Should open up your encrypted volume.

-JJ

Thankyou gentlemen. Back up and running now.

BashTin.