...although I must also say I don't know why I said "8 MB". There was a recent thread right here where all this was hashed out, when someone who lost the LUKS header was trying to recreate it. Can't find it now, but I seem to recall that thread said 8 MB. Sorry for being so vague... Regards, Sitaram On Mon, Dec 1, 2008 at 9:35 AM, Sitaram Chamarty <sitaramc@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Hello, > > On Mon, Dec 1, 2008 at 6:53 AM, Jan Reusch <jreusch@xxxxxx> wrote: >> with 'cryptsetup luksDump device' you can see how much space your >> luksheader needs. >> most the time it is 1032 sectors (512 bytes a sector makes half a >> megabyte) for me. > > Look further down in that dump output for the phrase "AF Stripes". > >> you can read this all in the initial paper [1] clemens wrote. >> Jan >> >> [1] http://clemens.endorphin.org/nmihde/nmihde-A4-os.pdf > > see section 2.4 in http://luks.endorphin.org/LUKS-on-disk-format.pdf > > Regards, > > Sitaram > --------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
