On Mon, Dec 1, 2008 at 12:23 AM, Jan Engelhardt <jengelh@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > 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/...). I thought the luks header spans about 4000 blocks (8MB or so) due to the anti-forensic key splitting. Perhaps it doesn't touch the first few blocks or so, and Marek's files were well below that... --------------------------------------------------------------------- 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