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From: Arno Wagner <arno@wagner.name>
To: dm-crypt@saout.de
Subject: Re: [dm-crypt] re-format existing luks partition
Date: Fri, 22 Nov 2013 16:33:37 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20131122153337.GA13570@tansi.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <l6np5b$j4p$1@ger.gmane.org>

On Fri, Nov 22, 2013 at 15:19:33 CET, Robert Nichols wrote:
> On 11/22/2013 05:49 AM, shmick@riseup.net wrote:
[...]
> >>Also there are some fixes ready for reencryption tool on the way so you
> >>may be also interested waiting for 1.6.3 release in coming weeks.
> >
> >i shall wait around for some updates
> >just finally as an aside, is this method truly safe compared to starting
> >again ?
> 
> Safer and simpler just to start over with a luksFormat, as you proposed.

It is simpler. As to safer, neither is safe without a good backup.

Arno

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  reply	other threads:[~2013-11-22 15:33 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2013-11-22  8:26 [dm-crypt] re-format existing luks partition shmick
2013-11-22 10:33 ` Ondrej Kozina
2013-11-22 11:49   ` shmick
2013-11-22 14:19     ` Robert Nichols
2013-11-22 15:33       ` Arno Wagner [this message]
2013-11-26 12:06 ` [dm-crypt] open ext-2/3/4 luks container, ext2fsd + FreeOTFE in Windows shmick
2013-11-26 12:34   ` Milan Broz

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