Hi. Unfortunately this is still rather black magic to me,.. especially when one combines LVM/MD/partitons and perhaps even the striping options in ext-filesystems. But AFAIK, if you just want to use _LUKS_ (guess this does not work with plain dm-crypt devices) on partitions, and if you use a recent enough kernel (IIRC it was 2.6.34) and recent enough cryptsetup (IIRC 1.1.3) then the alignment should happen automatically. The payload offset in the LUKS header is simply set accordingly. So AFAIK you shouldn't need to use "-H 32 -S 32"... Any better experts,... please correct me if I'm wrong. Cheers, Chris. _______________________________________________ dm-crypt mailing list dm-crypt@xxxxxxxx http://www.saout.de/mailman/listinfo/dm-crypt