On 04/13/2017 12:18 PM, 7heo wrote: > Hey all, > > I assumed that there was on option to give the offset of the header on a > disk, but this option is only accepted for loopaes and plain devices, > according to the man. Neither loopaes nor plain device use header. Where do you see this? > There's another option to give an offset, for the key-file, but as far > as I could understand, this is for the offset of the key slots > relatively to the start of the partition they're on. > > Also --align-payload only works on the data. All offsets works only for data. > So is there a way to place a detached header arbitrarily on a disk, and > not at the start of a partition? No. LUKS1 offset always starts at sector 0. All tools like blkid search for header at this location, you cannot arbitrarily change offset. You can only set data payload offset to 0 if detached header is used (it means that no header is on the data device itself.) Milan _______________________________________________ dm-crypt mailing list dm-crypt@xxxxxxxx http://www.saout.de/mailman/listinfo/dm-crypt
