From: Arno Wagner <arno@wagner.name>
To: dm-crypt@saout.de
Subject: Re: [dm-crypt] Hosed encrypted drive. Is disaster recovery possible?
Date: Mon, 2 Aug 2010 11:05:07 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20100802090507.GA22544@tansi.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1280738327.12803.1387859489@webmail.messagingengine.com>
Is this LUKS? If it is, it should refuse to open becaue of
missing header. If it is plain dm--crypt, you just lost some
data at the beginning of the disk and can use the usual
recovery methods...
Arno
On Mon, Aug 02, 2010 at 01:38:47AM -0700, Willie wrote:
>
>
> On Mon, 02 Aug 2010 02:27 +0200, "Arno Wagner" <arno@wagner.name> wrote:
> > On Sun, Aug 01, 2010 at 04:20:38PM -0700, Willie wrote:
> > >
> > > Oh well. Some you lose. Chin up. Onward and upward, etc etc...
> >
> > That's the spirit. Only those doing nothing of importance
> > do not screw up sometimes.
> >
> > Arno
> >
> > --
>
> Well, it's kind of strange. I aborted the dd as soon as I became aware
> of my moment of crass stupidity and I can still see part of the
> directory structure, with quite a few file names in there showing proper
> file sizes, but these seem to be empty of data.
>
> I still have
> "/dev/mapper/udisks-luks-uuid-c1a534b4-d1ba-40d0-adb8-6d2490f06ade-uid9330
> on /media/Seagate_1.5 type xfs (rw,nosuid,nodev,uhelper=udisks)", and
> obviously I have the pass phrase.
>
> I suppose it's the key that's gone, and there's the kicker, right?
>
>
>
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-08-02 9:05 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-08-01 21:11 [dm-crypt] Hosed encrypted drive. Is disaster recovery possible? Willie
2010-08-01 21:26 ` Christoph Anton Mitterer
2010-08-01 23:01 ` Arno Wagner
2010-08-01 23:20 ` Willie
2010-08-02 0:27 ` Arno Wagner
2010-08-02 8:38 ` Willie
2010-08-02 9:05 ` Arno Wagner [this message]
2010-08-02 9:58 ` Milan Broz
2010-08-02 10:21 ` Mikko Rauhala
2010-08-02 13:43 ` [dm-crypt] How to gather LUKS parameters from active device (if LUKS header lost) Milan Broz
2010-08-02 17:33 ` Willie
2010-08-02 17:36 ` Arno Wagner
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