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Hi everyboy,
I got a (serious) problem with a broken LUKS header. A little background: I've been using dm-crypt / LUKS for many years without ever having any problems until now. On one of my Linux boxes, I have three encrypted volumes for root (/dev/sda2), swap (/dev/sda3) and home (/dev/sdb1). My problem: A few days ago, I tried to add a key file to all three volumes using 'cryptsetup luksAddKey'. The command succeeded for sda2 and sda3. Adding the key file to sdb1, however, failed with 'Invalid Key Slot 6, Invalid Key Slot 7'. It seems the LUKS header of sdb1 was corrupted in the process. Probing the header using 'cryptsetup luksDump' fails with the same error message. Fortunately, sdb1 was unlocked and mounted when this happened - I was still able to access data on this volume and from what I've seen, everything is still intact, so I created a complete backup right away using rsync. However, I would feel much better if I could repair the header to verify that the backup I made actually contains all data from sdb1. I also created a 1:1 backup of sdb1 using dd. On this backup, I tried 'keyslot_checker' and 'cryptsetup repair'. The first didn't work at all, the latter reported invalid offsets for key slots 6 and 7 and fixed them. However, I was unable to open the volume using my normal passphrase afterwards, so that didn't work out as expected. Help would be greatly appreciated. Sorry for my bad English, I am not a native speaker. |
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