Re: cryptosetup luks info resources

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Thanks for info. It came out that hal didn't work for me because of some bugs 
in KDE.

Marek Aaron Sapota

On Sunday 30 November 2008 19:53:11 Jan Engelhardt wrote:
> On Sunday 2008-11-30 19:22, projects.gg.aaron@xxxxxxxxx wrote:
> >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?
>
> There is no reason to explicitly zero the device - it would take much too
> long. It simply writes the LUKS header. Since ext3's header begins some
> 16-32KB from the start of the device, nothing is lost unless you start
> making a filesystem on the crypto device (/dev/mapper/...).
>
> >One more question - can hal be made to recognize luks and automount such
> >devices?
>
> It already does recognize them as I gather from developers.
>
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