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vladtepes

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From: Radaspona, Germania

Registered: 2004-06-11

Posts: 37

how save is dmcrypt? / ...invalid argument [solved]

Greetings,

i plan to crypt all my partitions with dmcrypt.
my question would be: how save is it?

is it a big efford to encode a crypted partition if you dont have the paraphrase?

EDIT:
great...i just tried to make an crypted partition with:

cryptsetup -y create daten2 /discs/disc1/part1

but i get an:

Command failed: invalid argument

if i try the same in verbose mode, the error is this:

Command failed: device-mapper ioctl cmd 9 failed: Invalied Argument

would be pleased if someone could help me out in some way.

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vladtepes

Member

From: Radaspona, Germania

Registered: 2004-06-11

Posts: 37

Re: how save is dmcrypt? / ...invalid argument [solved]

Greetings,

sorry, but i solved the problem by myself :-D
the failure was, that the disk i tried, had still a partition.
after i deleted that one, everything worked.

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