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arch0r

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From: From the Chron-o-John

Registered: 2008-05-13

Posts: 597

fsck external luks drive

hi all
is there any good possibility for checking luks encrypted external drives with fsck?
filesystem is ext3 --> i tried fsck.ext3 /dev/sdb but it didn't work

thx in advance
arch0r

carlocci

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From: Padova - Italy

Registered: 2008-02-12

Posts: 368

Re: fsck external luks drive

You have to run fsck on the virtual device you create in /dev/mapper/:
the one you create with
cryptsetup luksOpen /dev/sdb1 THENAME

Of course you can't fsck /dev/sdb: first of all it's the name of the disk, not the partition you want to check,
secondly being encrypted fsck have no idea what it contains.

At least I think, since I never used encryption.

Last edited by carlocci (2008-06-14 22:49:29)

arch0r

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From: From the Chron-o-John

Registered: 2008-05-13

Posts: 597

Re: fsck external luks drive

thx a lot, worked

fsck.ext3 /dev/mapper/hd