From: Arno Wagner <arno@wagner.name>
To: dm-crypt@saout.de
Subject: Re: [dm-crypt] What does it mean ?not a valid LUKS device?? Can I start over and not destroy the drive?
Date: Fri, 15 Jun 2012 22:59:44 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20120615205944.GA1218@tansi.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <SNT129-W2D91796CB345FCE03AAA894FB0@phx.gbl>
crytptestup only works within the specified target device,
no effect oytside of it. Hence your other partitions will
be unaffected, baring some strange set-ups.
If you do not care about the data in the old LUKS container
(partition), you can just luksFormat the device. However
you should be sure /dev/sda3 is not used in any other
way (something did erase or damage the header after all, may
have been a filesystem, raid-superflock or other thing),
and may damage your new header. It may be a good thing
to check the partition is not maunted and you could also check
ehat kind of header is in it, e.g. with hd or by trying to mount
it.
As to grub.conf, Grub legacy uses menu.lst, and grub 2
uses grub.cfg, so I am not really sure what you are talking
about.
Arno
On Fri, Jun 15, 2012 at 04:18:18PM +0000, neon_ bikini wrote:
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Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2012-06-15 16:18 [dm-crypt] What does it mean “not a valid LUKS device”? Can I start over and not destroy the drive? neon_ bikini
2012-06-15 18:11 ` .. ink ..
2012-06-15 20:59 ` Arno Wagner [this message]
2012-06-16 8:01 ` [dm-crypt] What does it mean ?not a valid LUKS device?? " Milan Broz
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