On 09/23/2015 09:50 AM, Michael Kjörling wrote: > On 23 Sep 2015 02:29 +0000, from hmccurdy@xxxxxxxxx (H McCurdy): >> I might have figured it out but can't test my idea until tomorrow. >> My thought is to try to access it as if it exists and if the >> function returns -1, then it's not a valid LUKS container. Anyway, >> that's my idea. > > For the scenario you describe, something like > > # test -r $DEVICE && cryptsetup isLuks $DEVICE && echo It is LUKS In generoic scripts I would better suggest to use blkid (or libblkid if you need link to a library). See blkid man page for all formatting etc. parameters. Milan _______________________________________________ dm-crypt mailing list dm-crypt@xxxxxxxx http://www.saout.de/mailman/listinfo/dm-crypt