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From: Arno Wagner <arno@wagner.name>
To: dm-crypt@saout.de
Subject: Re: [dm-crypt] Bug Report to Ubuntu regarding dangerous installer
Date: Sun, 17 Apr 2011 04:16:20 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20110417021620.GA11632@tansi.org> (raw)

There is a bug report about this already in the Ubuntu bug
tracking system here, whih was upgraded to "critical" as
result of my bug report. 

http://launchpad.net/bugs/420080

It should get looked at for 11.04 now and hopefully be fixed.
The only thing really needed is a detection of existing 
LUKS headers and a strong warning that you will kill them
by proceeding.

For my side this closes the discussion. Any clunky 
cryptsetup-integrated backup is not a clean option, as
"luksHeaderBackup" works just fine and avoids numerous
possible problems with the other solutions proposed here.
It just has to be used. 

Arno
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             reply	other threads:[~2011-04-17  2:16 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-04-17  2:16 Arno Wagner [this message]
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2011-04-12 20:13 [dm-crypt] yet another "lost my partition" message Hugo Melo
2011-04-15 13:52 ` Cristian KLEIN
2011-04-15 16:58   ` [dm-crypt] Bug Report to Ubuntu regarding dangerous installer Arno Wagner
2011-04-15 19:38     ` Claudio Moretti
2011-04-15 22:01       ` Arno Wagner
2011-04-16 11:06         ` Claudio Moretti
2011-04-16 16:18           ` Cristian KLEIN
2011-04-17  0:14             ` PsiStormYamato
2011-04-17  0:20             ` M Thomas Frederiksen
2011-04-17  1:53               ` Arno Wagner
2011-04-15 20:54     ` PsiStormYamato

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