Am Sat, 10 Oct 2009 03:13:38 +0300 schrieb Hussam Al-Tayeb <ht990332@xxxxxxxxx>: > I did a fsck and badblocks. nothing wrong there. > I don't think it is failing because cryptsetup on an old opensuse live > cd successfully unlocks /dev/sdb1 eventhough it doesn't support ext4. You're saying "an old opensuse live cd". So I assume, that it hasn't already kernel 2.6.31? Maybe you should try it with a live cd which already has kernel 2.6.31, if there is any released. It probably is a bug in ext4 in 2.6.31 which wasn't present in 2.6.30. It's not likely, but with ext3 I don't have this issue. I guess you already have reinstalled the kernel and/or cryptsetup just in case? If this also doesn't help, I guess someone else who has better knowledge of this than me - should be easy to find ;-) - could try to help. Heiko