Ext4/LUKS encrypted flash drives created with Gnome Disk Utility are unreadable on machines other than the one they were created on
| Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
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| gnome-disk-utility (Ubuntu) |
New
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Undecided
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Unassigned | ||
Bug Description
I've formatted multiple flash drives (all different manufacturers) with an Ext4/LUKS partition using multiple machines that were all running 16.04. The partition is created successfully, can be mounted/dismounted and the contents of the encrypted partition are viewable. However, on machines other than the one which was used to format the flash drives the LUKS partition can be mounted but the contents are not readable. Nautilus provides a "The location could not be displayed. You do not have the permissions necessary to view the contents of $DRIVE_NAME" message.
I formatted a flash drive with an Ext4/LUKS partition using the Gnome Disk Utility on Fedora 24 and everything works as it should, so this definitely seems to be an issue with Ubuntu formatting the partitions.
