Am 23.11.2015 um 04:35 schrieb Arno Wagner:
On Sun, Nov 22, 2015 at 23:30:23 CET, Sven Eschenberg wrote:
[...]
Now to your question, once you know the offset of the header:
1.)Setup a loop device from your image (You can use an offset into
the image where your loop device starts with sector 0) see --offset
in losetup man page.
Ah, yes. That would save copying it.
That was the plan. In general using dmsetup to create a mapping manually
should work too, if loop device support is missing - dmsetup is pretty
cryptic to use though.
Inspect loopdevice if the LUKS Header now is on sector 0
2.)Try a cryptsetup luksopen in readonly mode
Good idea. With that it may be reasonaly safe to work
with the original disk. I still would make a full
backup before.
Regards,
Arno
Well, I thought about using the loop on the file while the physical disk
stays unchanged. Otherwise it would be possible to work on the physical
disk, and keep a safety image. No matter which way one chooses, always
have a safety copy.
If the disk is having mechanical problems or something similiar one
would of course use 2 images, one 'master binary backup' and the replica
to work on.
Once mapping and opening works, one can choose to either copy out the
files and backup (usually a good idea) or to create a copy in the manner
you described. Possibly such an image could then be remerged onto a new
clean array, if it is otherwise intact. Not without some remaining risks
though.
Regards
-Sven
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