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From: Arno Wagner <arno@wagner.name>
To: dm-crypt@saout.de
Subject: Re: [dm-crypt] Restore a LUKS partition
Date: Thu, 21 Nov 2013 23:37:42 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20131121223742.GB2280@tansi.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <l6lbr4$b78$1@ger.gmane.org>

On Thu, Nov 21, 2013 at 17:19:58 CET, Robert Nichols wrote:
> On 11/21/2013 02:11 AM, Michael Grosseck wrote:
> >On 21.11.2013 02:57, Arno Wagner wrote:
> >>hd /dev/sda6 | head
> >thanks Arno for your reply, the command above gives me this output:
> >
> >00000000  00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00  00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 |................|
> >*
> >000001b0  00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00  00 00 00 00 00 00 00 ef |................|
> >000001c0  ff ff 83 ef ff ff 3f 00  00 00 11 31 9c 00 00 00 |......?....1....|
> >000001d0  00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00  00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 |................|
> >*
> >000001f0  00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00  00 00 00 00 00 00 55 aa |..............U.|
> >00000200  00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00  00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 |................|
> >*
> >00007e00  4c 55 4b 53 ba be 00 01  62 6c 6f 77 66 69 73 68 |LUKS....blowfish|
> 
> For some reason /dev/sda6 starts with a partition table and looks like
> a correctly partitioned whole disk. Did you perhaps use dd to copy an
> image of an entire disk onto your current /dev/sda6?

Ah, yes, looks like it. The 0x55aa is typical.

Arno
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      parent reply	other threads:[~2013-11-21 22:37 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2013-11-21  1:25 [dm-crypt] Restore a LUKS partition Michael Grosseck
2013-11-21  1:57 ` Arno Wagner
2013-11-21  8:11   ` Michael Grosseck
2013-11-21 15:44     ` Arno Wagner
2013-11-21 16:19     ` Robert Nichols
2013-11-21 21:53       ` Michael Grosseck
2013-11-21 22:36         ` Arno Wagner
2013-11-21 22:37       ` Arno Wagner [this message]

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