It happens. Don't worry about it. Regards, Arno On Sun, Nov 06, 2016 at 08:26:50 CET, zero.tonin@xxxxxx wrote: > Good morning all, good morning Sven, > > thank you very much for your message and insight and also for confirming parts of my understanding of the situation. > > Now, getting back to my drive, I have to make the most embarrassing confession - for the last three days I actually tried to unlock the drive with my user account password and, in contrast to my initial words (which I eat now), _not_ with the drive password. I have not the lsightest idea why, apart from the two (password and passphrase) being in use both for the same amount of time, which is roughly 5 years or so. > > The luks header and keyslot are not only intact, they are fully working and I can decrypt the drive no problem. Turns out it was, indeed, a "layer 8 problem". > > I am, while relieved I can recover the data, add a second keyslot and rsync the drive immediately, sincerely sorry for having used (some may say wasted) this list's and some individual's time,, but thanks again for all your help. > > On the positive side, this forced me to learn a bit more about luks and what it actually does (instead of just using it) and also was an opportunity to lear to never again claim I am "100% certain about the password"… > > > Thanks again, all, and a great Sunday to everyone, > Mark > > (I will take the liberty to remain on this list for future interesting topics) > _______________________________________________ > dm-crypt mailing list > dm-crypt@xxxxxxxx > http://www.saout.de/mailman/listinfo/dm-crypt -- Arno Wagner, Dr. sc. techn., Dipl. Inform., Email: arno@xxxxxxxxxxx GnuPG: ID: CB5D9718 FP: 12D6 C03B 1B30 33BB 13CF B774 E35C 5FA1 CB5D 9718 ---- A good decision is based on knowledge and not on numbers. -- Plato If it's in the news, don't worry about it. The very definition of "news" is "something that hardly ever happens." -- Bruce Schneier _______________________________________________ dm-crypt mailing list dm-crypt@xxxxxxxx http://www.saout.de/mailman/listinfo/dm-crypt
