Re: Re: cannot format a secondary partirtion with luks

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He had this in his first e-mail:

   # cryptsetup -c blowfish luksFormat /dev/sdb2

   WARNING!
   ========
   This will overwrite data on /dev/sdb2 irrevocably.

   Are you sure? (Type uppercase yes): YES
   Enter LUKS passphrase:
   Verify passphrase:
   Command successful.
   # cryptsetup luksOpen /dev/sdb2 sdb2
   Enter LUKS passphrase:
   Command failed: No key available with this passphrase.



On Fri, Oct 10, 2008 at 10:12 AM, Dick Middleton <gmane@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Marco Giusti wrote:
>>
>> On Wed, Oct 08, 2008 at 11:50:28PM +0200, Marco Giusti wrote:
>>>
>>> hello list,
>>>  i got an usb drive whit two partition and if i try to farmat the second
>>> one and then mounting it, i got an error message.
>>
>> really no idea? id do not know if this is a bug or just i cannot create
>> a crypted partition in the secondary partition.
>
> What was error message?
>
> You need to luksFormat the partition, luksOpen it then create a file system
> on it (mkfs) before you can mount it.  Which bit failed?
>
> Dick
>
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