Hi, you probably receive often such mails: How can I rescue my data? Here is what happened: I have (had) an encrypted harddisk (1TB). I can't remember whether I encrypted the whole block device or the partition on it. Now I accidently formatted the disk as msdos filesystem. Again I don't know whether it was the block device or just the partition. The ouput of fdisk -l looks like this: root@arpa:~# fdisk -l /dev/sdb Platte /dev/sdb: 1000.2 GByte, 1000204886016 Byte 255 Köpfe, 63 Sektoren/Spuren, 121601 Zylinder Einheiten = Zylinder von 16065 × 512 = 8225280 Bytes Disk identifier: 0x0006044c Gerät boot. Anfang Ende Blöcke Id System /dev/sdb1 * 1 121601 976760001 c W95 FAT32 (LBA) A long time ago when I destroyed the partition table of an unencrypted block device I just created a new one with the same parameters and then had access to the complete filesystem again with no data loss. What will happen if I recreate the encrypted harddisk with cryptsetup -c aes-xts-plain -s 512 luksFormat /dev/sdb which is the same command I used to encrypt the disk before? Can I rescue the data that way? Are there any other possibilities under these circumstances? The fact that the 1TB disk is the largest one I own doesn't make it easy to do experiments. Thank you in advance! -- GRATIS für alle GMX-Mitglieder: Die maxdome Movie-FLAT! Jetzt freischalten unter http://portal.gmx.net/de/go/maxdome01 _______________________________________________ dm-crypt mailing list dm-crypt@xxxxxxxx http://www.saout.de/mailman/listinfo/dm-crypt
