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From: Matthias Schniedermeyer <ms@citd.de>
To: Emily Williams <emilyw@MIT.EDU>
Cc: dm-crypt@saout.de
Subject: Re: [dm-crypt] Avoiding fsck.ext4 destruction of crypto_luks data
Date: Sun, 30 Dec 2012 19:49:43 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20121230184943.GA18824@citd.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CA+VYMuZT3wnwA4nJd=WjgugwpvoV8n+zKKYEE+H02HY1CB=sjQ@mail.gmail.com>

On 30.12.2012 11:59, Emily Williams wrote:
> 
> So I've taken to setting my encrypted partitions to "NetBSD Encrypted"
> (a905), so when I look at the partition tables I'm reminded that there
> actually isn't a Linux filesystem on the device itself, but rather
> something that is encrypted that becomes a Linux filesystem via
> /dev/mapper/X after cryptosetup luksOpen happens.

I create a dummy partition with type 'da' (Non-FS-Data) on my HDDs.
Altough 0 (Empty) sounds nice too. ;-)

I say dummy partition because i don't actually use the partition for 
anything. It's only there to stop my encryption init-script, so that i 
don't accidentally kill an already initialized HDD (or one of the 
system-HDDs) in case i fat-fingered the device-name.




-- 

Matthias

  reply	other threads:[~2012-12-30 18:49 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 [this message]
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

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