From: Arno Wagner <arno@wagner.name>
To: dm-crypt@saout.de
Subject: Re: [dm-crypt] cryptsetup creates 1.8 Gb when it should be 1Tb
Date: Tue, 29 Oct 2013 01:19:16 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20131029001916.GA1694@tansi.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <l4mk2g$6gl$1@ger.gmane.org>
On Mon, Oct 28, 2013 at 22:14:01 CET, Robert Nichols wrote:
> On 10/28/2013 03:26 PM, Arno Wagner wrote:
> >Interesting. This one was new for me.
> >
> >Arno
> >
> >On Mon, Oct 28, 2013 at 20:28:31 CET, metageek wrote:
> >>Ok, problem solved now,
> >>
> >>the last poster was spot on, for some reason that I cannot figure out, there
> >>was a regular file /dev/sdb1. After removing it (with the drive
> >>disconnected), everything works.
>
> I've seen it before in other contexts. Things can get really weird when
> there is an ordinary, non-empty file named /dev/null.
Hehe, yes I can imagine that....
Arno
>
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2013-10-29 0:19 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2013-10-28 2:05 [dm-crypt] cryptsetup creates 1.8 Gb when it should be 1Tb metageek
2013-10-28 2:54 ` Arno Wagner
2013-10-28 3:30 ` David Christensen
2013-10-28 7:39 ` Milan Broz
2013-10-28 19:28 ` metageek
2013-10-28 20:26 ` Arno Wagner
2013-10-28 21:14 ` Robert Nichols
2013-10-29 0:19 ` Arno Wagner [this message]
2013-10-28 20:42 ` David Christensen
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