Milan Broz <mbroz@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On 12/02/2010 04:45 PM, Mario 'BitKoenig' Holbe wrote: >> It is not easy to check if your dm-crypt mapping is correct (i.e. feeded >> with the correct key, the correct device offset, etc.) if, like in your >> case, there is damage in the beginning of the partition - that decrypts > If you know, that there was an fs, it is easy, just run > blkid -p /dev/mapper/<cryptdevice> > and it should detect fs signature. Nope. blkid just probes the primary superblock, which is damaged if the beginning of the partition is damaged. regards Mario -- It is a capital mistake to theorize before one has data. Insensibly one begins to twist facts to suit theories instead of theories to suit facts. -- Sherlock Holmes by Arthur Conan Doyle _______________________________________________ dm-crypt mailing list dm-crypt@xxxxxxxx http://www.saout.de/mailman/listinfo/dm-crypt
