We have encountered a problem with blkid that is caused by cryptsetup not cleaning superblocks of old filesystems on luksFormat. The problem has been fixed in 1.0.7, however old LUKS volumes still suffer from this problem. Please read this thread for details: http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.linux.utilities.util-linux-ng/2563 What I would request is an option to "clean" the unused area in the LUKS header up to the start of the payload, such that for example an old ext2 magic is removed. All that without destroying the used areas in the LUKS header, of course. I'm not very familiar with the LUKS code or on-disk format, so I would be greatful if anyone who is would implement such a feature. Thanks for your replies. Thomas