Re: Hosed encrypted drive. Is disaster recovery possible?

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Is this LUKS? If it is, it should refuse to open becaue of 
missing header. If it is plain dm--crypt, you just lost some 
data at the beginning of the disk and can use the usual 
recovery methods...

Arno

On Mon, Aug 02, 2010 at 01:38:47AM -0700, Willie wrote:
> 
> 
> On Mon, 02 Aug 2010 02:27 +0200, "Arno Wagner" <arno@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > On Sun, Aug 01, 2010 at 04:20:38PM -0700, Willie wrote:
> > >  
> > > Oh well. Some you lose. Chin up. Onward and upward, etc etc...
> > 
> > That's the spirit. Only those doing nothing of importance
> > do not screw up sometimes.
> > 
> > Arno
> > 
> > -- 
> 
> Well, it's kind of strange. I aborted the dd as soon as I became aware
> of my moment of crass stupidity and I can still see part of the
> directory structure, with quite a few file names in there showing proper
> file sizes, but these seem to be empty of data.
> 
> I still have
> "/dev/mapper/udisks-luks-uuid-c1a534b4-d1ba-40d0-adb8-6d2490f06ade-uid9330
> on /media/Seagate_1.5 type xfs (rw,nosuid,nodev,uhelper=udisks)", and
> obviously I have the pass phrase.
> 
> I suppose it's the key that's gone, and there's the kicker, right?
> 
> 
> 
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