Re: Encrypted Partition

[zinie@falerio.students.cs.unibo.it (Enrico Zini)]

On Tue, Sep 17, 2002 at 06:30:13PM +0200, Xavier Sanz wrote:

> >Try adding a '-t ext2' or whatever type of filesystem you have on
> >there...
> it doesn't seems to work also..

Could you please paste the error message it gives you when "it doesn't
seem to work"?

> i've executed de cfdisk program..
> this is the output

There's no use in cfdisk, since the data in the partition is encrypted
and normal utilities can only see garbage in it.

> As u can see tjhe /dev/hda4 seems not to have a filesystem assigned... 
> how can i assign one?

You can't, and it wouldn't make any sense since hda4 does not contain a
filesystem but only encrypted data.  You can see a file system inside
the loop device thay you create with losetup, but once you can see it
you can also mount it without problems.

Please retry with the '-t' option as described by others and, if it
doesn't work, paste in a mail both the command and its output.

Be sure to provide the correct keysize and password to losetup.


Bye, Enrico