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From: Heinz Diehl <htd@fancy-poultry.org>
To: dm-crypt@saout.de
Subject: Re: [dm-crypt] volume unrecognized
Date: Thu, 27 Aug 2009 16:57:03 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20090827145703.GA11409@fancy-poultry.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <edb9e59e5c4f859db5b16ace4e9d92ff.squirrel@webmail.kapps.fr>

On 27.08.2009, Jacques-Olivier KAPPS wrote: 

> Now I can map the device with luksOpen, but the volume itself is
> unrecognized.

Maybe the underlying filesystem got corrupted.

> I certainly can open the device with luksOpen because I choosed the same
> password in the installation process, but my guess is that the ubuntu
> installer erased and replaced the luks headers of my partition by new
> ones, what do you think?

That would explain the whole situation. When the partition gets prepared
via LUKS/dmcrypt, the filesystem is gone, and you'll have to format again.

> Do you have any advice?

Recreate the partition by using the latest backup. You have one, right?

  parent reply	other threads:[~2009-08-27 14:52 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-08-27 14:31 [dm-crypt] volume unrecognized Jacques-Olivier KAPPS
2009-08-27 14:47 ` Jonas Meurer
2009-08-27 15:11   ` Jacques-Olivier KAPPS
2009-08-27 15:45     ` Moji
2009-08-27 14:57 ` Heinz Diehl [this message]
2009-08-27 15:20   ` Jacques-Olivier KAPPS
2009-08-27 15:44     ` Moji
2009-08-27 16:28       ` Jonas Meurer
2009-08-27 17:03         ` Milan Broz
2009-08-27 18:39           ` Jonas Meurer

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