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From: Milan Broz <mbroz@redhat.com>
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Subject: Re: [dm-crypt] loop file with partition problems
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To: Giovanni Di Stasi <gdistasi@gmail.com>
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On 02/29/2012 05:26 PM, Giovanni Di Stasi wrote:

Here you are creating plain container (did you mean luksFormat in fact?)
> # sudo cryptsetup -y create crypt .encrypted

and here you are trying to open LUKS...
> # cryptsetup luksOpen .encrypted crypt

so try
sudo cryptsetup -y create crypt .encrypted

which will just recreate the mapping (create just set up mapping,
it doesn't format anything)

Milan