Re: luks partition table altered by linux-swap

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I will try when I get there, but will it work with such big drives?

On Tue, Sep 29, 2009 at 11:27 AM, Jonas Meurer <jonas@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> hey,
>
> On 28/09/2009 anton ivanov wrote:
>> Well, headers seem to be ok. cryptsetup luksDump finds it without any problem.
>>
>> xxd /dev/sdc1 |head -n 10
>> 0000000: 4c55 4b53 babe 0001 6165 7300 0000 0000  LUKS....aes.....
>> 0000010: 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000  ................
>> 0000020: 0000 0000 0000 0000 6362 632d 6573 7369  ........cbc-essi
>> 0000030: 763a 7368 6132 3536 0000 0000 0000 0000  v:sha256........
>> 0000040: 0000 0000 0000 0000 7368 6131 0000 0000  ........sha1....
>> 0000050: 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000  ................
>> 0000060: 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0408 0000 0010  ................
>> 0000070: e00b 50a0 0042 ae4a cd71 ccff 4b8a b701  ..P..B.J.q..K...
>> 0000080: 8872 f723 19d5 c1d6 945c 8aed c3b4 703b  .r.#.....\....p;
>> 0000090: a2e2 a755 961d b2e9 fd06 59f3 0ecd 42a6  ...U......Y...B.
>>
>>
>> The problem is that the first sector of disk, where partition table is
>> hold was altered with this damned swap partition of 2gb.
>>
>> Maybe there is any way on how to create artificial partition table
>> manually that will be correct for dm-crypt to work? And then write it
>> to this drive using dd or smth.
>
> if only the partition table at beginning of /dev/sdc is damaged, and not
> the luks header at beginning of /dev/sdc1, you could find out the sector
> where /dev/sdc1 beginns, loop-mount /dev/sdc with offset and try to
> luksOpen the loop device:
>
> # losetup -o <bytes> /dev/loop0 /dev/sdc
> # cryptsetup luksOpen /dev/loop0 sdc1_crypt
>
> greetings,
>  jonas
>
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