On 13 December 2015 at 20:52, Milan Broz <gmazyland@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > 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 Hi Milan, thank you for the reply. You can see the output below, there is an error indeed. I understand this is not an issue with cryptsetup, but would anyone have suggestions on how to proceed? Is there any hope of "fixing" this, e.g. marking this sector as unusable? Thank you, Luís $ sudo dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/sdb1 bs=4096 count=1 oflag=sync,direct dd: error writing ‘/dev/sdb1’: Remote I/O error 1+0 records in 0+0 records out 0 bytes (0 B) copied, 0.00142455 s, 0.0 kB/s _______________________________________________ dm-crypt mailing list dm-crypt@xxxxxxxx http://www.saout.de/mailman/listinfo/dm-crypt