How to chroot into encrypted Arch Linux instance

Piotr Pliszko

Anyone who manually installed Arch Linux for sure knows chroot - it's an operation that changes the apparent root directory for the current running process and their children. To do so, we can use the arch-chroot command:

arch-chroot /path/to/new/root

It can be tricky if we are trying to chroot into an encrypted environment. Fortunately, there is an easy way to do this. To open encrypted device use cryptsetup luksOpen. For example:

cryptsetup luksOpen /dev/sdX2 sdX2

Then, just mount the opened device, and chroot into it using arch-chroot as usual.

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