On Wed, 16 Jun 2010 21:45:19 -0400 Anthony Thyssen <a.thys...@griffith.edu.au> wrote: >On Wed, 16 Jun 2010 17:17:09 -0400 >jstra...@hushmail.com wrote: >| >| Sorry, I forgot to put the second part of the error. So the >error is >| >| encfs: MAC comparison failure in block 409 >| encfs: error caught in read >| >| I see this in /var/log/messages periodically. >| >| On Wed, 16 Jun 2010 16:31:45 -0400 jstra...@hushmail.com wrote: >| >I'm getting the error "encfs: MAC comparison failure in block >| >409". >| >I assume this means one of the encrypted files is corrupted in >| >some >| >way. How do I find out what file uses that block? >| > > >depending on how much data there is you could just try to read >each file >until you get a read error from the reading command! > >file /path/to/decrypted/data -type f | >while read i; do > echo "$i" > cat "$i" > /dev/null || exit >done > >Note that I have not tested or debugged the above. Just a >suggestion. >
Thanks for the suggestion. To read each file I ended up using "grep <randomtext> -r /path/" and got an Input/output error on the file in block 409 and 2 others that produced MAC comparison failures in blocks that I hadn't seen before. Thanks again. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ ThinkGeek and WIRED's GeekDad team up for the Ultimate GeekDad Father's Day Giveaway. ONE MASSIVE PRIZE to the lucky parental unit. See the prize list and enter to win: http://p.sf.net/sfu/thinkgeek-promo _______________________________________________ Encfs-users mailing list Encfs-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/encfs-users
