From: Arno Wagner <arno@wagner.name>
To: dm-crypt@saout.de
Subject: Re: [dm-crypt] Help
Date: Sun, 22 Apr 2012 10:59:32 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20120422085931.GA1885@tansi.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAJqpQ_Xi7A5hxBxQHJQMPbvoYZPXPFQUHSnARS0Vdnq9rTbPpw@mail.gmail.com>
If you cannot afford to lose the data, then surely you have a
backup (see FAQ) and a header backup (see FAQ)? Having a single
copy of vital data on an unreliable storage medium is not a
good idea, encrypted or not.
Now, if you really did luksFormat a device with LUKS data on
it, then all that data is permanently gone (rather obvious,
also see FAQ). If not, then maybe describe what happened so
that it is possible for us to reconstruct it?
Arno
On Fri, Apr 20, 2012 at 04:58:46PM +0100, Simon Bing wrote:
> I used cryptsetup to perform the following function
>
> cryptsetup -y --cipher aes-xts-plain --key-size 512 luksFormat /dev/sdb1
>
> An error occured saying it couldnt be performed which i pretty much ignored
> and just thought i won't bother. I did note that it mentioned about kernel
> compatability though. The drive appears to be encrypted and wont accept
> the passphrase set. This has just under 1.5 tb of information i can't
> afford to loose. Do you have any solutions, i have looked online but am
> absolutely stuck
>
> Cheers
>
> Si
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Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2012-04-20 15:58 [dm-crypt] Help Simon Bing
2012-04-22 8:59 ` Arno Wagner [this message]
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2016-01-10 17:07 [dm-crypt] help Eugen Rogoza
2016-02-25 14:50 Felix Wagner
2016-02-25 15:08 Felix Wagner
2016-02-25 16:18 ` Ondrej Kozina
2016-02-25 17:25 ` Ondrej Kozina
2016-02-25 16:37 ` Milan Broz
2016-02-25 17:05 ` Felix Wagner
2016-02-25 17:20 ` Milan Broz
2016-02-25 17:35 ` Felix Wagner
2016-02-25 17:49 ` Felix Wagner
2016-02-25 17:55 ` Milan Broz
2016-02-25 17:58 ` Felix Wagner
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