Hello! I've got a strange problem with Fedora 7. I've upgraded from FC5 to F7. Since then I cannot decrypt a partition I've created with FC5. I used cryptsetup *without* LUKS. Even more strange: I can decrypt another partition which has been encrypted in exactly the same way. The only difference between them is - the decryptable partition is on a PATA drive - the undecryptable partition is on a SATA drive The hard drive is not broken because I can decrypt the partition under Knoppix. Here is my diagnosis so far (sda1 and sdc1 is the same partition because the naming convention changed with F7's kernel) Under FC5 (and Knoppix 5.2) I do: # cat key|cryptsetup -c aes-cbc-essiv:sha256 create _dev_sda1 /dev/sda1 # dmsetup --showkeys table _dev_sda1 0 976768002 crypt aes-cbc-essiv:sha256 <key1> 0 8:1 0 Under F7 I do: # cat key|cryptsetup -c aes-cbc-essiv:sha256 create _dev_sdc1 /dev/sdc1 # dmsetup --showkeys table _dev_sdc1 0 976768002 crypt aes-cbc-essiv:sha256 <key2> 0 8:33 0 As you can see the identical commands produce two different encryption keys. Do you have a clou what's happening? Any hint would be great. I've already filled a bug report, but I've got no response so far... https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=243086 -- bye, Adalbert Every program has (at least) two purposes: the one for which it was written and another for which it wasn't.
