i am working on a friend's laptop, that has an encrypted hard drive. i
took it out and plugged into my system, then i used these commands to
mount it and work on it:
sudo cryptsetup luksOpen /dev/sde5 sde5_crypt
(this makes available the -root and -swap partitions in /dev/mapper)
sudo mount /dev/mapper/laptop-root /mnt/laptop-root