Konstantin Bläsi <ktrackfd@...> writes: i just wanted to say thank you to the replies. for some reason, possibly a race condition?, the problem dissapeared after i wrote this original post. seeing the replies helped me stick to the path i was on and voila!. echo "$pass" | cryptsetup --cipher aes-xts-plain --key-size 512 --hash sha512 --iter-time 10000 --use-urandom luksFormat "$container" works with "$container" and "$pass" defined earlier in a graphical dialog. thanks again for all your work on this. erik _______________________________________________ dm-crypt mailing list dm-crypt@xxxxxxxx http://www.saout.de/mailman/listinfo/dm-crypt