Ubuntu
cryptsetup package

  1. Bug #428435
  2. Comment #54

Comment 54 for bug 428435

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Martin Pitt (pitti) wrote : Re: [Bug 428435] Re: luks encrypted partition not detected when it was created over an ext partition

Antti Kaijanmäki [2009-10-21 8:44 -0000]:
> Martin: this happens also with swap and probably other FS' too. Simply
> prefer over ext is not sufficient.

So for karmic, we should perhaps just prefer it over anything else? Or
at least over swap and ext*? I think these two are the only ones that
truly matter for booting. As you say, we shouldn't do too much
guesswork on broken USB sticks anyway (with cases like luks over VFAT,
or VFAT over luks, both of which are plausible, and both of which are
known not to clean up superblocks properly).

Thanks, Martin