Good time of the day, J.
You wrote: > I want to luks encrypt and new external usb based hard-disk. > So I tried with the command, and it failed with the error as > following. > > cryptsetup -y --cipher aes-xts-plain --key-size 512 > luksFormat /dev/sdc > > WARNING! > ======== > This will overwrite data on /dev/sdc irrevocably. > > Are you sure? (Type uppercase yes): YES > Enter LUKS passphrase: > Verify passphrase: > Device /dev/sdc is not a valid LUKS device. > Error re-reading LUKS header after update on device /dev/sdc > > Any clue ? this is a completely new disk. I have also tried to create > partition /dev/sdc1 and executed the command on /dev/sdc1 ..... same > error !!! I have no answer on Your question, but unless You find a solution to Your problem I think You can try w/ cryptsetup luksFormat /dev/sdc1 command. Sthu. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/50cccdef.6358700a.7ab0.ffff8...@mx.google.com
