From: Arno Wagner <arno@wagner.name>
To: dm-crypt@saout.de
Subject: Re: [dm-crypt] not a valid LUKS device
Date: Fri, 26 Apr 2013 20:26:42 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20130426182642.GA6301@tansi.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <517AB15F.6090201@riseup.net>
On Fri, Apr 26, 2013 at 01:54:55PM -0300, Hugo wrote:
> On 04/26/2013 11:14 AM, Arno Wagner wrote:
> >> What is your opinion on this?
> >
> > Well, it is difficult to see what this bug really does, but
> > if it really overwrites the first sector, then the salts
> > in the LUKS header are gone and there is no way to recover
> > from that without a header backup.
> Sure, as expected. I will reformat that so.. :(
>
> >
> > It seems Ubuntu still does not understand how to keep its
> > fingers off existing LUKS partitions. I recommend you complain
> > to them.
>
> I am trying.. But as I understand, it is seen by them as low priority
> and who is interested in things out of the mainstream should achieve by
> themselves.
Not nice :-/
> Thanks Arno!
No problem.
Arno
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Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2013-04-25 13:12 [dm-crypt] not a valid LUKS device Hugo
2013-04-26 14:14 ` Arno Wagner
2013-04-26 16:54 ` Hugo
2013-04-26 18:26 ` Arno Wagner [this message]
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