From: Milan Broz <mbroz@redhat.com>
To: Mario 'BitKoenig' Holbe <Mario.Holbe@TU-Ilmenau.DE>
Cc: dm-crypt@saout.de
Subject: Re: [dm-crypt] Is partial LUKS recovery possible?
Date: Thu, 02 Dec 2010 17:20:41 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4CF7C759.4030305@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <slrnifffpi.9qh.Mario.Holbe@darkside.dyn.samba-tng.org>
On 12/02/2010 04:45 PM, Mario 'BitKoenig' Holbe wrote:
> It is not easy to check if your dm-crypt mapping is correct (i.e. feeded
> with the correct key, the correct device offset, etc.) if, like in your
> case, there is damage in the beginning of the partition - that decrypts
> to more or less random data and thus doesn't let you easily verify the
> correctness of your mapping.
If you know, that there was an fs, it is easy, just run
blkid -p /dev/mapper/<cryptdevice>
and it should detect fs signature.
Milan
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-12-02 16:20 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-12-02 10:28 [dm-crypt] Is partial LUKS recovery possible? Miklos Bagi
2010-12-02 12:15 ` Miklos Bagi
2010-12-02 17:39 ` Arno Wagner
2010-12-02 17:44 ` Nargis Khan
2010-12-02 12:31 ` Mario 'BitKoenig' Holbe
2010-12-02 14:17 ` Miklos Bagi
2010-12-02 15:45 ` Mario 'BitKoenig' Holbe
2010-12-02 16:20 ` Milan Broz [this message]
2010-12-02 16:28 ` Mario 'BitKoenig' Holbe
2010-12-02 17:04 ` Milan Broz
2010-12-02 17:11 ` Mario 'BitKoenig' Holbe
[not found] ` <4CF81339.9070004@mbjr.hu>
2010-12-02 22:27 ` Mario 'BitKoenig' Holbe
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