hey, On 13/10/2009 esrms wrote: > I was running lenny 32bit with an encrypted LVM setup. > I tried to install 64-bit. > I went through the installer, got to the partition section, > selected the correct partition and said "use as encrypted container", > then went to "configure encrypted volumes", it asked me for a > passphrase, I entered it. > Then it asked me to confirm, I entered again, suspicious. > Then I rebooted, encrypted disk is hosed. Appears empty. > pvck -d -v /dev/sda2 says it can't find an LVM label. > > I suspect the installer did " > cryptsetup --verbose --verify-passphrase luksFormat /dev/sda2" > > So the previous partition header/metadata is lost. unfortunately you're right. debian-installer did a luksFormat and that way overwrote your luks header. > Is there anyway to recover data from the disk? use your backups. if you don't have any - you're lost. greetings, jonas
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