Re: Re: cannot format a secondary partirtion with luks

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On Fri, Oct 10, 2008 at 04:40:39PM +0200, Milan Broz wrote:
> Nicodemo Alvaro wrote:
> > 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.
> 
> This error message is misleading here probably.
> (I hope next cryptsetup version will print better message in the case
> of device error - I sent patch to fix that already.)
> 
> It can be that some process still uses the device
> (and device mapper cannot use it exclusively) or there
> is wrong parameters for kernel crypto....

i don't think so, if i try to use the first partition i got no problems

> Check also syslog - is there anything important?

nothing at all.

m.

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