Am Montag, 26. Juni 2006 08:00 schrieb ext White Raven: > Hello! > > > After few days I realised, that it is really an old howto and lot of > packages depend on sys-fs/cryptsetup-luks. These two are blocking each > other (of course). Maybe just my googling ability went slower because of > summer, but I was unable to find any examle, how to "convert" partition > from old cryptsetup to newer cryptsetup-luks. You don't need to, cryptsetup-luks is cryptsetup + LUKS features. Just unmerge cryptsetup and emerge cryptsetup-luks. > Is the only way using dd (somethink like dd if=/dev/mapper/_dev_sda5 of= > /root/sda5 then recreating partition and key with cryptsetup-luks and dd > backup back after that)? Or is there some easier way, just to modify > /etc/security/pam_mount.conf and so? Don't use the dd method!!! It may work (and in fact, it worked for me several times) but it may also fail badly. Backup the data, (re-)create the encrypted partition, copy back the data. Bye... Dirk -- Dirk Heinrichs | Tel: +49 (0)162 234 3408 Configuration Manager | Fax: +49 (0)211 47068 111 Capgemini Deutschland | Mail: dirk.heinrichs@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Hambornerstraße 55 | Web: http://www.capgemini.com D-40472 Düsseldorf | ICQ#: 110037733 GPG Public Key C2E467BB | Keyserver: www.keyserver.net
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