From: Robert Nichols <rnicholsNOSPAM@comcast.net>
To: dm-crypt@saout.de
Subject: Re: [dm-crypt] Detached header offset
Date: Thu, 13 Apr 2017 08:21:47 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <ocnu15$ogs$1@blaine.gmane.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <d0cba900-05da-2be0-caaa-03014302a933@mail.com>
On 04/13/2017 05:18 AM, 7heo wrote:
>
> So is there a way to place a detached header arbitrarily on a disk, and not at the start of a partition?
It's not supported within cryptsetup, but you can always use "losetup" to create a loop device starting at the needed offset and then specify that loop device as the detached header:
Loopdev=$(losetup -f --show -o 65536 /dev/{whatever}
cryptsetup luksOpen --header $Loopdev ...
losetup -d $Loopdev
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2017-04-13 13:21 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2017-04-13 10:18 [dm-crypt] Detached header offset 7heo
2017-04-13 11:02 ` Milan Broz
2017-04-13 13:21 ` Robert Nichols [this message]
2017-04-13 13:36 ` Arno Wagner
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