On Mon, Jul 04, 2011 at 05:45:23PM +0200, Louis-David Mitterrand wrote: > Hi, > > After a hardware crash I now get this error: > > root@grml ~ # cryptsetup isLuks /dev/md1 > Device /dev/md1 is not a valid LUKS device > > Am I basically fucked? I assume you have no header backup? If so, possibly, but not necessarily. Is this on an SSD? There the LUKS header could be in the same "sector" as a data area (due large SSD actual sector size) Can you send me the first 700 bytes of the partition as hexdump? You can get them for example like this: hd /dev/md1 | head -n 40 Arno -- Arno Wagner, Dr. sc. techn., Dipl. Inform., CISSP -- Email: arno@xxxxxxxxxxx GnuPG: ID: 1E25338F FP: 0C30 5782 9D93 F785 E79C 0296 797F 6B50 1E25 338F ---- Cuddly UI's are the manifestation of wishful thinking. -- Dylan Evans If it's in the news, don't worry about it. The very definition of "news" is "something that hardly ever happens." -- Bruce Schneier _______________________________________________ dm-crypt mailing list dm-crypt@xxxxxxxx http://www.saout.de/mailman/listinfo/dm-crypt
