Comment 0 for bug 520442

Binary package hint: gnome-disk-utility

I have now managed to produce an unusable luks partition 4 times. 2 times with the mint rc (karmic based) and now 2 times with lucid 20100210 64 bit daily iso.

Here is how:
use gparted to make space by making the main partition shorter. I made empty space of about 10GB at the end of the disk.
use palimpsest to put an encrypted partition in this newly created empty space. tried with both ext4 and ext3. used default options.
the filesystem is created and can be mounted. put stuff in. unmount. shut down.
on reboot there is no luks partition anymore: gparted says "unknown" and palimpsest says "unrecognised"
sudo most /dev/sdax shows that partition has no luks header. a lot of zeros at the beginning instead.

when using palimpsest in the same manner on this faulty partition again to overwrite it with another encrypted partition all worked well.