From: "Karl O. Pinc" <kop@meme.com>
To: dm-crypt@saout.de
Subject: Re: [dm-crypt] openLuks failing - semaphore weird bug involved ?
Date: Thu, 08 Sep 2011 17:21:35 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1315520495.15393.0@mofo> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAMw1ynTReMNcx=rqg-QPUhVhBh3DJLZ4biONNZay8JL2DQotVA@mail.gmail.com> (from flyingstar16@gmail.com on Thu Sep 8 16:53:45 2011)
On 09/08/2011 04:53:45 PM, Claudio Moretti wrote:
> well, you were lucky you lost only unimportant data :) there were a
> lot of people, first of all: me, who did not backup their header on
> the main system.. And they (read: me) lost access to their home
> partition because the only place where the passphrase had been stored
> was.. the damaged root partition..
> And that's how i learned i should back up headers (lol)
As I'm sure has been said by others: it's a lot more important
to back up your _data_ than to backup the luks header.
To paraphrase R. Crumb: "It is better to have data
in times of no luks header than it is to have a luks header
in times of no data."
Karl <kop@meme.com>
Free Software: "You don't pay back, you pay forward."
-- Robert A. Heinlein
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-09-08 22:21 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-09-07 18:30 [dm-crypt] openLuks failing - semaphore weird bug involved ? Ric Flomag
2011-09-07 22:31 ` Arno Wagner
2011-09-08 15:46 ` Ric Flomag
2011-09-08 18:11 ` Arno Wagner
2011-09-08 21:53 ` Claudio Moretti
2011-09-08 22:21 ` Karl O. Pinc [this message]
2011-09-09 16:19 ` Arno Wagner
[not found] ` <1315506605.6590.0@mofo>
2011-09-15 15:54 ` Ric Flomag
2011-09-15 16:06 ` Arno Wagner
2011-09-15 16:15 ` Ricflomag
2011-09-15 23:07 ` Arno Wagner
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