From: Arno Wagner <arno@wagner.name>
To: dm-crypt@saout.de
Subject: Re: [dm-crypt] cryptsetup creates 1.8 Gb when it should be 1Tb
Date: Mon, 28 Oct 2013 21:26:29 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20131028202629.GA31940@tansi.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <loom.20131028T201307-11@post.gmane.org>
Interesting. This one was new for me.
Arno
On Mon, Oct 28, 2013 at 20:28:31 CET, metageek wrote:
> Ok, problem solved now,
>
> the last poster was spot on, for some reason that I cannot figure out, there
> was a regular file /dev/sdb1. After removing it (with the drive
> disconnected), everything works.
>
> The drive is a Seagate Backup Plus portable drive
>
> I'm running cryptsetup version 1.4.3 (the version in Slackware64 14.0,
> running kernel 3.8.8)
>
> # dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/sdb bs=1GB
> dd: writing '/dev/sdb': No space left on device
> 1001+0 records in
> 1000+0 records out
> 1000204885504 bytes (1.0 TB) copied, 12064.5 s, 82.9 MB/s
>
> so it is really 1.0 TB there (not a fake one)
>
> #smartctl -i
> /dev/sdb: Unknown USB bridge [0x0bc2:0xa013 (0x100)]
>
> Now, status reports the full drive and no loopback:
>
> # cryptsetup -v status pjhomecrypt
> /dev/mapper/pjhomecrypt is active.
> type: LUKS1
> cipher: aes-cbc-essiv:sha256
> keysize: 256 bits
> device: /dev/sdb1
> offset: 4096 sectors
> size: 1953521008 sectors
> mode: read/write
> Command successful.
>
> The filesystem was created successfully with ~ 1 TB.
>
> Problem solved.
> Thanks everyone!
>
>
>
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2013-10-28 20:26 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2013-10-28 2:05 [dm-crypt] cryptsetup creates 1.8 Gb when it should be 1Tb metageek
2013-10-28 2:54 ` Arno Wagner
2013-10-28 3:30 ` David Christensen
2013-10-28 7:39 ` Milan Broz
2013-10-28 19:28 ` metageek
2013-10-28 20:26 ` Arno Wagner [this message]
2013-10-28 21:14 ` Robert Nichols
2013-10-29 0:19 ` Arno Wagner
2013-10-28 20:42 ` David Christensen
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