spamzad@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote: > Something must have overwritten the header (posted it at the bottom) - > and I have no clue what. > That's exactly my question now: might it be a bug in cryptsetup or can > i rule that out? Cryptsetup never write empty first sectors except explicit LUKS format. (Of course this can very rarely happen if hw/driver problem appears...) But see crypttab here - you have tmp device created as regular encrypted device with random key - are you sure that kernel _cannot_ swap sda & sdb and your system just formats temp device here? > # <target name> <source device> <key file> <options> > home /dev/sdb2 none luks > ctmp /dev/sda2 /dev/urandom > tmp,cipher=aes-cbc-essiv:sha256 > cswap /dev/sda5 /dev/urandom > swap,cipher=aes-cbc-essiv:sha256 Milan -- mbroz@xxxxxxxxxx _______________________________________________ dm-crypt mailing list dm-crypt@xxxxxxxx http://www.saout.de/mailman/listinfo/dm-crypt