On Friday 01 February 2002 12:32 pm, you wrote: > Sascha Noyes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > [...] > > > 1. Diskdrake (during install): > > if you choose (in "options") to have an encrypted filesystem, it asks for > > a password that must be at least 20 (!!) characters long. Sure this makes > > it very secure, but 20 is somewhat over the top - non? > > yes, losetup needs patching... > > > 2. Diskdrake (during install): > > This one i could reproduce - I tried because it seemed a somewhat strange > > bug. > > > > Conditions: > > Two harddrives (hda & hdd). > > Convert one of the partitions ( /mnt/haha - ext2 - hda5 ) to encrypted > > mode. / and /home partitions on hdd. > > click <Done> > > Format / and /home on hdd > > > > Error message (during formatting): > > "fsck failed with exitcode 8 or signal 0" > > the log you gave doesn't show wether the partition is formatted or not. Can > you give more?
OK, here's the entire log from the step "doPartitionDisks" onward: "starting step 'doPartitionDisks'" "warning: bad magic number at /usr/bin/perl-install/partition_table_empty.pm line 31" "found a dos partition table on /dev/hda at sector 0" "warning: bad magic number at /usr/bin/perl-install/partition_table_empty.pm line 31" "found a dos partition table on /dev/hdd at sector 0" "test_for_bad_drives (/dev/hda)" "test_for_bad_drives (/dev/hdd)" "missing module floppy" "step 'doPartitionDisks' finished" "swapon called with hdd5" "swapon called with hda7" "mounting hdd1 on /mnt/ as type ext2, options" "running fsck.ext2 -a /dev/hdd1" "fsck corrected partition /dev/hdd1" "calling mount(/dev/hdd1, /mnt, ext2, -1058209792, ) "running: /usr/bin/insmod_2> /dev/tty5 -f /tmp/loop.o "calling losetup -p 0 -e AES128 /dev/loop0 /dev/hda5" "mounting /dev/loop0 on /mnt/mnt/haha as type ext2, options encrypted, encryption=AES128" "running fsck.ext2 -a /dev/loop0" "warning: fsck failed with exitcode 8 or signal 0 at /usr/bin/perl-install/fs.pm line 620" -- Sascha Noyes OpenPGP public key keyID: 7F9C4D6F ------------ Encrypted mail much preferred
