On Tue, 2010-06-01 at 22:58 +0200, tesla1@xxxxxxx wrote: > What will happen if I recreate the encrypted harddisk with > > cryptsetup -c aes-xts-plain -s 512 luksFormat /dev/sdb It won't help you, as a new volume key is generated... > which is the same command I used to encrypt the disk before? Can I rescue the data that way? No... it could even harm, in case the old LUKS header should be still there (which I doubt) > Are there any other possibilities under these circumstances? You can try to do some forensics, and see whether you find a valid LUKS header (with keyslots and so on)... Or simply grab your backups of either your data, or the LUKS header ;-) Cheers, Chris.
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