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From: Milan Broz <gmazyland@gmail.com>
To: Jan Janssen <medhefgo@web.de>, dm-crypt@saout.de
Subject: Re: [dm-crypt] Detached header
Date: Thu, 17 Apr 2014 20:27:43 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <53501D1F.4040904@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <53501984.9050004@web.de>

On 04/17/2014 08:12 PM, Jan Janssen wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I'm experimenting with LUKS detached header and I had the problem that 
> cryptsetup binary does not like regular files when provided with 
> --header (both luksFormat and open). When I make a manual losetup with 
> the same header file and provide the loop device to --header everything 
> works fine.
> 
> According to the man page, --header is supposed to work for regular 
> files too. This should either get fixed or the manual page be updated.

Detached header should works with regular files.

Can you provide more info what is not working? Please post failing command with
added --debug and provide exact versions of cryptsetup.

Milan

  parent reply	other threads:[~2014-04-17 18:27 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2014-04-17 18:12 [dm-crypt] Detached header Jan Janssen
2014-04-17 18:21 ` Arno Wagner
2014-04-17 18:27 ` Milan Broz [this message]
2014-04-17 18:52   ` Jan Janssen

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