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From: Arno Wagner <arno@wagner.name>
To: dm-crypt@saout.de
Subject: Re: [dm-crypt] Hosed encrypted drive. Is disaster recovery	possible?
Date: Mon, 2 Aug 2010 11:05:07 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20100802090507.GA22544@tansi.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1280738327.12803.1387859489@webmail.messagingengine.com>

Is this LUKS? If it is, it should refuse to open becaue of 
missing header. If it is plain dm--crypt, you just lost some 
data at the beginning of the disk and can use the usual 
recovery methods...

Arno

On Mon, Aug 02, 2010 at 01:38:47AM -0700, Willie wrote:
> 
> 
> On Mon, 02 Aug 2010 02:27 +0200, "Arno Wagner" <arno@wagner.name> wrote:
> > On Sun, Aug 01, 2010 at 04:20:38PM -0700, Willie wrote:
> > >  
> > > Oh well. Some you lose. Chin up. Onward and upward, etc etc...
> > 
> > That's the spirit. Only those doing nothing of importance
> > do not screw up sometimes.
> > 
> > Arno
> > 
> > -- 
> 
> Well, it's kind of strange. I aborted the dd as soon as I became aware
> of my moment of crass stupidity and I can still see part of the
> directory structure, with quite a few file names in there showing proper
> file sizes, but these seem to be empty of data.
> 
> I still have
> "/dev/mapper/udisks-luks-uuid-c1a534b4-d1ba-40d0-adb8-6d2490f06ade-uid9330
> on /media/Seagate_1.5 type xfs (rw,nosuid,nodev,uhelper=udisks)", and
> obviously I have the pass phrase.
> 
> I suppose it's the key that's gone, and there's the kicker, right?
> 
> 
> 
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  reply	other threads:[~2010-08-02  9:05 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-08-01 21:11 [dm-crypt] Hosed encrypted drive. Is disaster recovery possible? Willie
2010-08-01 21:26 ` Christoph Anton Mitterer
2010-08-01 23:01 ` Arno Wagner
2010-08-01 23:20   ` Willie
2010-08-02  0:27     ` Arno Wagner
2010-08-02  8:38       ` Willie
2010-08-02  9:05         ` Arno Wagner [this message]
2010-08-02  9:58         ` Milan Broz
2010-08-02 10:21           ` Mikko Rauhala
2010-08-02 13:43           ` [dm-crypt] How to gather LUKS parameters from active device (if LUKS header lost) Milan Broz
2010-08-02 17:33             ` Willie
2010-08-02 17:36             ` Arno Wagner

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