From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from mail.saout.de ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (mail.saout.de [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id rmMY4uBnv5cz for ; Fri, 9 Sep 2011 00:21:38 +0200 (CEST) Received: from smtp.meme.com (janus.meme.com [69.17.73.118]) by mail.saout.de (Postfix) with ESMTP for ; Fri, 9 Sep 2011 00:21:37 +0200 (CEST) Received: from mofo.meme.com (unknown [192.168.1.2]) by smtp.meme.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id B004CA07A for ; Thu, 8 Sep 2011 17:21:35 -0500 (CDT) Received: from mofo (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by mofo.meme.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8455443D0D for ; Thu, 8 Sep 2011 17:21:35 -0500 (CDT) Date: Thu, 08 Sep 2011 17:21:35 -0500 From: "Karl O. Pinc" In-Reply-To: (from flyingstar16@gmail.com on Thu Sep 8 16:53:45 2011) Message-Id: <1315520495.15393.0@mofo> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Subject: Re: [dm-crypt] openLuks failing - semaphore weird bug involved ? List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , To: dm-crypt@saout.de 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 Free Software: "You don't pay back, you pay forward." -- Robert A. Heinlein