[ale] ext3 formatted USB disks

[Christopher Fowler]

It finally worked.  The example uses keys instead of passwords.  Can you
tell me how you use passwords?


On Sun, 2007-06-03 at 16:26 -0400, Christopher Fowler wrote:
> On Sat, 2007-06-02 at 17:24 -0400, Jeremy T. Bouse wrote:
> >      Hmm... I use a USB drive for my GPG and SSH keys on a daily
> > basis...
> > It's an ext3 partition but it's encrypted using LUKS. I just let udev
> > handle the auto-mounting on my systems. I run Debian myself but the
> > drive has never had any problems working on Fedora systems either so
> > long as all the appropriate pre-reqs are met. In fact using my GNOME
> > desktop it detects the LUKS encrypted partition and prompts me for the
> > passphrase to unlock it then detects the ext3 partition underneath it
> > and mounts it as /media/usbdisk. 
> 
> Now I'm interested.
> 
> I'm playing with a USB disk 
> 
> I've followed these instructions
> 
> http://www.saout.de/tikiwiki/tiki-index.php?page=EncryptedVarWithUSBKey
> 
> Here is output:
> 
> 
> WARNING!
> ========
> This will overwrite data on /dev/sda1 irrevocably.
> 
> Are you sure? (Type uppercase yes): YES
> Failed to setup dm-crypt key mapping.
> Check kernel for support for the aes-cbc-essiv:sha256 cipher spec and
> verify that /dev/sda1 contains at least 133 sectors.
> Failed to write to key storage.
> Command failed.
> 
> I get this in dmesg:
> 
> device-mapper: table: 253:0: crypt: Device lookup failed
> device-mapper: ioctl: error adding target to table
> device-mapper: ioctl: device doesn't appear to be in the dev hash table.
>      
> 
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