On Wed, Jan 16, 2013 at 09:51:36PM +0100, Alexander 'Leo' Bergolth wrote: > Am 16.01.2013 21:14, schrieb Arno Wagner: > >Any reason why you want to change the cipher? After all, you can > >not enlarge the key and keep the keyslots. > > > >As to size, just enlarge the partition. Offset, I don't know, > >but if you do not need to keep any data, just changing the > >repective fiels in the header should do it. But is there really > >any reason to change the offset? > > The motivation behind this is because I'd like to migrate the data > to another system using a different raid layout. > To ensure correct data alignment with the new stripe size, I need to > change the payload-offset using --align-payload. Ah, that makes sense. However, do you actually need this alignment? If yor filesystem has, say, 4kB blocks and your stripe-size is a multiple of that, it will be aligned anyways. Arno -- Arno Wagner, Dr. sc. techn., Dipl. Inform., Email: arno@xxxxxxxxxxx GnuPG: ID: CB5D9718 FP: 12D6 C03B 1B30 33BB 13CF B774 E35C 5FA1 CB5D 9718 ---- One of the painful things about our time is that those who feel certainty are stupid, and those with any imagination and understanding are filled with doubt and indecision. -- Bertrand Russell _______________________________________________ dm-crypt mailing list dm-crypt@xxxxxxxx http://www.saout.de/mailman/listinfo/dm-crypt
