Re: Debian 7.10 random key swap Device /dev/sda2 is not a valid LUKS device.

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On 04/06/2016 03:55 AM, Michael Kjörling wrote:
On 5 Apr 2016 21:25 -0700, from dpchrist@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx (David Christensen):
# grep sda2 /etc/crypttab
sda2_crypt /dev/sda2                                 /dev/urandom
cipher=aes-xts-plain64,size=256,swap

Since you don't have the "luks" option, Debian does not treat this as
a LUKS device. So when cryptsetup claims that /dev/sda2 "is not a
valid LUKS device" it is quite correct.


Thanks for the information.


So, RTFM 'crypttab': at boot time /sbin/cryptdisks_start will create a plain dm-crypt device with target name 'sda2_crypt' (/dev/mapper/sda2_crypt) from source device /dev/sda2 with a 256-bit key (option 'size') from file /dev/urandom and with cipher aes-xts-plain64 (option 'cipher'), and then run /sbin/mkswap on the created device (option 'swap') (?).


And, as plain dm-crypt devices do not have a LUKS header, 'luksHeaderBackup' has nothing to back up and the error message I'm seeing is expected and correct (?).


David

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