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You are using /dev/sdb1 as your keyfile. cryptsetup
has a compiled-in size limit on keyfiles, which is
per default 8kB. If /dev/sdb1 is larger, you get the
error you observe.

Regards,
Arno


On Wed, Sep 30, 2015 at 14:16:26 CEST, Mike Nagie wrote:
> Why is this happening? I'm trying to create encrypted luks partition 
> with a keyfile.
> 
> cryptsetup luksFormat /dev/sda2 /dev/sdb1
> 
> WARNING!
> This will overwrite data on /dev/sda2 irrevocably.
> 
> Are you sure? (Type uppercase yes): YES
> Maximum keyfile size exceeded.
> cryptsetup luksFormat /dev/sda2 /dev/sdb1 10.54s user 4.55s system 83% 
> cpu 18.1
> 
> (and sometimes: command failed with code 22 invalid argument)
> 
> cryptsetup open --type luks /dev/sda2 home -d /dev/sdb1
> Maximum keyfile size exceeded.
> cryptsetup open --type luks /dev/sda2 home -d /dev/sdb1  10.43s user 
> 4.64s system 99% cpu 15.103 total
> -- 
> You are so lucky!
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