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 ilzAoUofTpXg for ; Fri, 9 Sep 2011 18:19:11 +0200 (CEST) Received: from v4.tansi.org (ns.km33513-03.keymachine.de [87.118.94.3]) by mail.saout.de (Postfix) with ESMTP for ; Fri, 9 Sep 2011 18:19:10 +0200 (CEST) Received: from gatewagner.dyndns.org (84-74-162-232.dclient.hispeed.ch [84.74.162.232]) by v4.tansi.org (Postfix) with ESMTPA id 75BB31404001 for ; Fri, 9 Sep 2011 18:19:10 +0200 (CEST) Date: Fri, 9 Sep 2011 18:19:10 +0200 From: Arno Wagner Message-ID: <20110909161910.GA18411@tansi.org> References: <1315520495.15393.0@mofo> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <1315520495.15393.0@mofo> 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 Thu, Sep 08, 2011 at 05:21:35PM -0500, Karl O. Pinc wrote: > 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. Indeed. > 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." ;-)==) Arno -- Arno Wagner, Dr. sc. techn., Dipl. Inform., CISSP -- Email: arno@wagner.name GnuPG: ID: 1E25338F FP: 0C30 5782 9D93 F785 E79C 0296 797F 6B50 1E25 338F ---- Cuddly UI's are the manifestation of wishful thinking. -- Dylan Evans If it's in the news, don't worry about it. The very definition of "news" is "something that hardly ever happens." -- Bruce Schneier