http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ASCII
- * 1.3 System Specific warnings
+ * 1.3 System specific warnings
- Ubuntu as of 4/2011: It seems the installer offers to create
LUKS partitions in a way that several people mistook for an offer
This issue has been acknowledged by the Ubuntu dev team, see here:
http://launchpad.net/bugs/420080
+ Update 7/2012: I am unsure whether this has been fixed bu now, best
+ be careful.
- * 1.4 Who wrote this?
+
+ * 1.4 My LUKS-device is broken! Help!
+
+ First: Do not panic! In many cases the data is still recoverable.
+ Do not do anything hasty! Steps:
+
+ - Take some deep breaths. Maybe add some relaxing music. This may
+ sound funny, but I am completely serious. Often, critical damage is
+ done only after the initial problem.
+
+ - Do not reboot. The keys mays still be in the kernel if the device
+ is mapped.
+
+ - Make sure others do not reboot the system.
+
+ - Do not write to your disk without a clear understanding why this
+ will not make matters worse. Do a sector-level backup before any
+ writes. Often you do not need to write at all to get enough access
+ to make a backup of the data.
+
+ - Relax some more.
+
+ - Read section 6 of this FAQ.
+
+ - Ask on the mailing-list if you need more help.
+
+
+ * 1.5 Who wrote this?
Current FAQ maintainer is Arno Wagner <arno@wagner.name>. Other
contributors are listed at the end. If you want to contribute, send
process, except generating a new LUKS header with the old master
key (it prints the command for that though):
-http://code.google.com/p/cryptsetup/source/browse/trunk/misc/luks-header-from-active
+http://code.google.com/p/cryptsetup/source/browse/misc/luks-header-from-active
You can also do this manually. Here is how: