Package: cryptsetup Version: 2:1.1.0~rc2-1 Severity: wishlist Today I wanted to crypt one of my disk. I added a record into /etc/crypttab:
mmedia /dev/sdb /etc/cryptdisk.key size=256,cipher=aes-cbc-plain,hash=ripemd160 then I did command: # cryptdisks_start mmedia Starting crypto disk...mmedia (starting)... mmedia: the precheck for '/dev/sdb' failed: - The device /dev/sdb contains a valid filesystem type ext4. ... (warning). mmedia (failed)...failed. I searched an option to force crypdisk creating but couldn't. Then I made: # dd if=/dev/sdb of=first_meg.img bs=1M count=1 # dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/sdb bs=1M count=1 Then command 'cryptdisks_start mmedia' began work: # cryptdisks_start mmedia Starting crypto disk...mmedia (starting)... mmedia (started)...done. Then I encrypted my disk: # dd if=/dev/sdb of=/dev/mapper/mmedia bs=64M # dd if=first_meg.img of=/dev/mapper/mmedia Then I was able to continue using it. I think that the fact that cryptsetup doesn't allow to create cryptdevice if filesystem exists is a bug. At least it would be nice to have an option to bypass this situation. -- . ''`. Dmitry E. Oboukhov : :’ : email: un...@debian.org jabber://un...@uvw.ru `. `~’ GPGKey: 1024D / F8E26537 2006-11-21 `- 1B23 D4F8 8EC0 D902 0555 E438 AB8C 00CF F8E2 6537
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