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pshr

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Registered: 2009-09-27

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[SOLVED]Messed up my homepartion when i tried to encrypt it.

Ok, i messed up, destroyed my /home when i was trying to encrypt it with luks/dm-crypt. It failed because i disabled some aes cipher in my custom kernel.....retarded mistake.

I did a backup of my homedir yesterday.
My problem now is that my /home partion is messed up, getting input/output error since the crypt wiped everything but failed halfway into it. How do i restore my /home partion properly ?
Do i just mkfs it back to ext3 and remount it as home & copy my backup back, or do i need to take further steps?

I followed this guide btw:
http://www.mollison.us/blog/2010/06/20/ … rch-linux/

Last edited by pshr (2010-09-29 18:21:25)

Stebalien

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Re: [SOLVED]Messed up my homepartion when i tried to encrypt it.

If you don't want anything on the partition, reformatting it should do the trick.

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pshr

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Registered: 2009-09-27

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Re: [SOLVED]Messed up my homepartion when i tried to encrypt it.

solved!! logged out, logged in as root, format partion,remounted home, cp back my user, chown to my user.