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From: Richard <rz@linux-m68k.org>
To: Emily Williams <emilyw@MIT.EDU>
Cc: dm-crypt@saout.de
Subject: Re: [dm-crypt] Avoiding fsck.ext4 destruction of crypto_luks data
Date: Thu, 27 Dec 2012 21:29:35 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20121227202935.GA7991@rz> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CA+VYMuZ43V_+NgdUUSdLL4hC16hwqvpwLHnSTo32SGV52TPbzg@mail.gmail.com>

On Thu, Dec 27, 2012 at 01:12:09AM -0500, Emily Williams wrote:
> Today I made a rather large mistake, running fsck.ext4 on the raw volume
> (/dev/sdk1) instead of the mapped volume
> (/dev/mapper/whatever-i-choose-to-call-it). I assume it is not possible to
> recover from this once it is done and the cryptosetup lukeOpen passphrase
> no longer works.

something strange going on fsck.ext4 will never do a destructive action 
without asking.

Don't reboot, don't panic perhaps something can be saved.

No idea what really happened though.


Richard

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      parent reply	other threads:[~2012-12-27 23:19 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 21+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2012-12-27  6:12 [dm-crypt] Avoiding fsck.ext4 destruction of crypto_luks data Emily Williams
2012-12-27  9:35 ` ken
2012-12-27  9:52 ` Arno Wagner
2012-12-28 14:46   ` Sven Eschenberg
2012-12-28 15:04     ` Arno Wagner
2012-12-28 19:22       ` Milan Broz
2012-12-29  7:06         ` Arno Wagner
2012-12-29  9:05           ` Milan Broz
2012-12-29 11:52             ` Arno Wagner
2012-12-30  8:42         ` Sven Eschenberg
2012-12-30  9:39           ` Milan Broz
2012-12-30 10:53             ` Arno Wagner
2012-12-30 12:08               ` Sven Eschenberg
2012-12-30 12:25                 ` Milan Broz
2012-12-30 13:19                   ` Arno Wagner
2012-12-30 16:59       ` Emily Williams
2012-12-30 18:49         ` Matthias Schniedermeyer
2012-12-30 19:45         ` Arno Wagner
2012-12-31  6:37           ` Sven Eschenberg
2012-12-31 12:40         ` Richard
2012-12-27 20:29 ` Richard [this message]

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