On Sat, Apr 24, 2021 at 20:40:09 CEST, Peter Grandi wrote: > > First, the USB drive started to change its permissions to > > *write protected* when I was doing file transfers. Then, I run > > the system utility tool fsck to check and fix the filesystem > > as I suspected that errors therein might cause the behaviour. > > That is rather vague and not very useful. > > > After running fsck unsuccessfully, the *USB drive stopped > > working altogether* > > Most likely explanatuions: it is either defective or it has a > fake size. There are a lot of fake flash drives. > > > My question is: Can the LUKS encryption itself cause the > > described behaviour? > > No. I second that. LUKS has only a minor impact on the access pattern. A disk that dies with LUKS will also die without LUKS. Sounds very much like defective hardware and no connection to LUKS. Regards, Arno -- 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 To unsubscribe send an email to dm-crypt-leave@xxxxxxxx
