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by veken0m
07 Aug 2013, 03:54
Forum: Partition Recovery
Topic: Recovering LUKS EXT4 partition - incorrect size
Replies: 2
Views: 7131

Re: Recovering LUKS EXT4 partition - incorrect size

Finally figured it out. Simply had to delete the partition using fdisk and create a new one of the proper length. The tricky part was to get fdisk to let me pick sectors < 2048. Starting it in old DOS-style disk block addressing mode via the "fdisk -c=dos -u=cylinders /dev/sdf" command did the trick ...
by veken0m
03 Aug 2013, 02:17
Forum: Partition Recovery
Topic: Recovering LUKS EXT4 partition - incorrect size
Replies: 2
Views: 7131

Recovering LUKS EXT4 partition - incorrect size

I'm not exactly sure how this happened but the partition table of one of my LUKS encrypted drives was lost although I saw using a hex viewer that the LUKS header is completely intact. I think it might been when I was installing Manjaro Linux and messed something up while partitioning or installing ...