Trying to reproduce it I found what happened - I've made ext3 filesystem on file before I did cryptsetup luksFormat, but shouldn't it overwrite ext3 filesystem? Your article was a quite a good read it indeed showed me some answers=) One more question - can hal be made to recognize luks and automount such devices? Thanks Marek Aaron Sapota On Sunday 30 November 2008 18:24:04 Sitaram Chamarty wrote: > On Sun, Nov 30, 2008 at 6:29 PM, <projects.gg.aaron@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > I'm new to cryptosetup and luks. I've decided I'll try it out on a loop > > filesystem so I won't break anything and to my amazement I can properly > > mount encrypted file without luks and it appears empty (there was default > > ext3' lost+found directory), I can add files there and they don't appear > > when I mount it with luks. Like having two drives depending on mount > > method. This leads to > > This sounds weird; could you post the sequence of commands you used? > > > my question - where can I find some resources about how luks works, for > > example why I can do the thing described above and what can break when I > > do it? Also most tutorials don't tell how to use some more advanced > > options (how to choose encryption algorithm and what is the default?) > > Could someone point me to a full featured tutorial? > > About a couple of months ago I wrote an entry level article on > encrypted file systems for a local magazine. A PDF copy is at > http://sitaramc.googlepages.com/encrypted-file-systems.pdf -- I think > it should answer a lot of questions. > > [If anyone else takes a look at it and has comments, please let me > know. But remember the target audience for that article is people > who're just getting into this without using a GUI and all that -- > "slow and steady" is important :-) > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > dm-crypt mailing list - http://www.saout.de/misc/dm-crypt/ > To unsubscribe, e-mail: dm-crypt-unsubscribe@xxxxxxxx > For additional commands, e-mail: dm-crypt-help@xxxxxxxx
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