Dear dm-crypt folks, trying to save my data [1][2][3] I do not understand the following. The partitions of two drives `/dev/sd{a,b}2` start at exactly the same point. ------- 8< --- partition table --- >8 ------- # partition table of /dev/sda unit: sectors /dev/sda1 : start= 63, size= 995967, Id=fd, bootable /dev/sda2 : start= 996030, size=3906028035, Id=fd /dev/sda3 : start= 0, size= 0, Id= 0 /dev/sda4 : start= 0, size= 0, Id= 0 # partition table of /dev/sdb unit: sectors /dev/sdb1 : start= 63, size= 995967, Id=fd, bootable /dev/sdb2 : start= 996030, size=975772035, Id=fd /dev/sdb3 : start= 0, size= 0, Id= 0 /dev/sdb4 : start= 0, size= 0, Id= 0 ------- 8< --- partition table --- >8 ------- Doing `cryptsetup luksHeaderRestore /dev/sda2 --header-backup-file sdb.luksHeaderBackup` with `sdb.luksHeaderBackup` obtained from `/dev/sdb2` the passphrase, which works on sdb, should definitely work on sda although the data might be read as garbage. Thanks, Paul [1] http://www.saout.de/pipermail/dm-crypt/2011-August/001858.html [2] http://www.saout.de/pipermail/dm-crypt/2011-August/001858.html [3] http://marc.info/?l=linux-raid&m=131248606026407&w=2 _______________________________________________ dm-crypt mailing list dm-crypt@xxxxxxxx http://www.saout.de/mailman/listinfo/dm-crypt