Re: crypto and fsck guys.

Alan Cox (alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk)
Mon, 18 Oct 1999 12:31:11 +0100 (BST)


> I have just lost _ABSOLUELY_ everything
> of importance to myself. The reason? put
> quite plain and simply, two groups need to
> get their act together:

Actually to be brutal the reason is because you didnt make a backup.

> I run fsck to check the ext2 fs on my
> encrypted partition before it gets mounted,
> I don't expect fsck to provide the added
> "feature" of destroying that filesystem when
> it was in fact completely stable, usuable
> and NOT in need of repair. I'm going
> to have to see my doctor now as I am the
> most depressed that I have ever been.

fsck actually doesn't even know about encrypted data. The encrypt/decrypt
happens below the level either it or the file system code sees. If you
tried to fsck the crypted data not the uncrypted loopback I imagine
e2fsck would think your fs was quite odd however.

Alan

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