Clemens Fruhwirth wrote: >>Another curious issue I've seen is: >>[root@jupiter ~]# hexdump < /dev/mapper/crypt | head -10 >>0000000 efd2 aa03 24e5 38e4 6b81 f0a6 e5df f686 >>0000010 9142 e97a 4390 a64f 3365 e81c 6a8d 809c >>0000020 9bb5 1858 d643 2d2c 32cf 87f8 1830 d625 >>0000030 763e 1657 84da 6104 d902 41cf fb8f 1305 >>0000040 e69d 6d55 2be1 b442 f87d d800 b175 613e >>0000050 838a 8746 be55 5273 4c66 e79b 9d34 c58e >>0000060 5530 8fda 285b 2b71 71a5 9f6f 2b51 4e3d >>0000070 abb8 ed7c 0c84 35ef 29bd f155 17be 1275 >>0000080 13b0 ce1c 5c6a 91d4 3f4f 4e80 5c0d 6e50 >>0000090 4f1a 4f29 d2b4 d369 b9a9 9351 86c3 97de > > Hm, lot of entropy. Have you checked the plain text for the partition > start? Is it something reasonable with reasonable low-entropy? This is What are you exactly refering to? A longer dump similar to the former one (same crypt device)? Or to the partition which is crypted? > not going to help recovery in any way but I'm just curious. > Maybe you have an intact ext3 backup superblock. I'm not sure where > these things are placed by default but there seem to be plenty ext3 > recovery howtos out there. You might want to try e2fsck, and further > debugfs. Unfortunately both of these tools usually need a proper > superblock. I tried e2fsck. It restored the superblock, cleared journaling and fixed many many nodes. It resulted in many files recovered (they appeared in lost+found directory, when mounted) but the whole structure/dir tree is lost. Nevertheless I'm curious to know which superblock backup node did e2fsck choose and why. Currently it is backed up in: 32768 98304 163840 229376 294912 819200 884736 1605632 2654208 4096000 7962624 11239424 20480000 23887872 Now I'm going to try the Windows option. I'm currently decrypting my dm-crypt partition on the original HD and copying to a new HD, where I'll try other methods... I don't know whether the disaster could be caused by dm-crypt or it was some kind of ext3 fault. Cheers, -Román --------------------------------------------------------------------- - http://www.saout.de/misc/dm-crypt/ To unsubscribe, e-mail: dm-crypt-unsubscribe@xxxxxxxx For additional commands, e-mail: dm-crypt-help@xxxxxxxx
