hey, On 22/03/2010 Dmitry E. Oboukhov wrote: > >> 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. > > MB> FYI: this is bug in cryptdisks_start Debian wrapper, not in cryptsetup. > MB> plain cryptsetup allows mapping of any device, no fs check there. > MB> (and in LUKS mode it wipes FS signature during luksFormat) > > MB> Milan > > I wrote (may be is not clear) that I searched an option to bypass. I > looked through man cryptsetup and cryptdisk_start and did not find > any solution.
you can disable the precheck by setting precheck=/bin/true in crypttab. i added that hint to the crypttab manpage now. greetings, jonas
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