On 12/11/2015 03:56 PM, Luís de Sousa wrote: > On 11 December 2015 at 15:34, Milan Broz <gmazyland@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> >> Could you please try to add to dd command: oflag=direct and try it again? >> > > Same result (see below). Thanks for helping in any case. > > $ sudo dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/sdb1 bs=4096 count=2500 conv=sync oflag=direct > 2500+0 records in > 2500+0 records out > 10240000 bytes (10 MB) copied, 1.59072 s, 6.4 MB/s > > $ sudo cryptsetup -y -v luksFormat /dev/sdb1 ... strace shows that it is really IO error reported on write: open("/dev/sdb1", O_RDWR|O_EXCL|O_SYNC|O_DIRECT) = 6 ... write(6, "\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0"..., 4096) = -1 EREMOTEIO (Remote I/O error) IMHO this operation should print error as well: dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/sdb1 bs=4096 count=1 oflag=sync,direct (note sync is oflag, not conv=...) Anyway, this is not error in cryptsetup... Milan _______________________________________________ dm-crypt mailing list dm-crypt@xxxxxxxx http://www.saout.de/mailman/listinfo/dm-crypt