Unable to access hard drive

[wctaylor]

I haven’t tried this before, but based on this thread:

How to resize Pure OS partitions to gain space for dual boot (Ubuntu)

To resize (shrink) the encrypted /dev/sda5 partition I have tried these steps: Open a terminal in the live boot system Open the encrypted partition using your LUKS password: sudo cryptsetup luksOpen /dev/sda5 cryptdisk Then you’ll be prompted to enter the decryption key After successful decryption you have root access to your now decrypted partition Run gparted as root from the terminal and use the GUI to resize the partition Step 5 does fail because “resize” of /dev/sda5 did …

You could try

sudo cryptsetup luksOpen /dev/sdb2 cryptdisk, which may allow you to decrypt the disk, and then from there, the suggestions above might work.