From: Milan Broz <mbroz@redhat.com>
To: Claudio Moretti <flyingstar16@gmail.com>
Cc: dm-crypt@saout.de
Subject: Re: [dm-crypt] LUKS Header and partition dimension
Date: Mon, 28 Mar 2011 13:02:44 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4D906AD4.6030305@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <AANLkTing5qyzX5kNPxonp_05vjzEDeX4U_298LwxXvQs@mail.gmail.com>
On 03/28/2011 12:41 PM, Claudio Moretti wrote:
> If the partition size has no relation with the disk unlocking, does
> it mean that somehow my LUKS header is corrupted (and therefore I'll
> be unable to unlock the disk, because I was so stupid I didn't backup
> the header)?
Unfortunately you probably just answered yourself.
Partition size (resp. partition end) is not important, you just need full
LUKS header starting in the beginning with not corrupted active keyslots
to unlock it.
Also see
http://code.google.com/p/cryptsetup/wiki/FrequentlyAskedQuestions#6._Backup_and_Data_Recovery
Milan
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-03-28 11:02 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-03-28 10:41 [dm-crypt] LUKS Header and partition dimension Claudio Moretti
2011-03-28 11:02 ` Milan Broz [this message]
2011-03-28 15:01 ` Arno Wagner
2011-03-29 9:56 ` Claudio Moretti
2011-03-29 13:43 ` Arno Wagner
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