Re: Reusing existing crypto partitions is not supported

2007-04-02 Thread Frans Pop
On Monday 02 April 2007 23:09, David Härdeman wrote: > I'm not sure whether this should be mentioned in the manual/errata? It could be added to the errata, although I'm not sure many users will run into this (and even less who will read the errata before they do). As a workaround for 4.0r1 (and

Re: Reusing existing crypto partitions is not supported

2007-04-02 Thread Benjamin Seidenberg
> I just had a conversation with Benjamin Seidenberg on IRC. The problem > was that he had tried to reuse a pre-existing encrypted partition > (/home, using LUKS) by setting it up in the installer using the same > passphrase etc. > > LUKS creates a random, unique, key in its table and uses the pass

Reusing existing crypto partitions is not supported

2007-04-02 Thread David Härdeman
I just had a conversation with Benjamin Seidenberg on IRC. The problem was that he had tried to reuse a pre-existing encrypted partition (/home, using LUKS) by setting it up in the installer using the same passphrase etc. LUKS creates a random, unique, key in its table and uses the passphrase