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Bug 490740 - LUKS block devices are not recognized
LUKS block devices are not recognized
Status: RESOLVED FIXED
Product: gparted
Classification: Other
Component: application
0.3.3
Other All
: Normal enhancement
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Assigned To: gparted maintainers alias
gparted maintainers alias
Depends on:
Blocks:
 
 
Reported: 2007-10-27 07:48 UTC by Eric
Modified: 2009-02-19 16:13 UTC
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GNOME target: ---
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Description Eric 2007-10-27 07:48:37 UTC 
What actually happens:
When I view a block device that contains a LUKS partition, gparted reports that it is of type "unknown".

What should happen:
When I view a block device that contains a LUKS partition, gparted should properly show this. Whether or not a partition is a LUKS partition can be determined by checking the return value of the command

cryptsetup isLuks /path/to/device

A return value of true means that it is a LUKS partition. A return value of false means that it is not a LUKS partition.
Comment 1 Curtis Gedak 2009-02-17 22:44:11 UTC 
Thank you Eric for suggesting this LUKS partition recognition enhancement.

From reading up on LUKS encryption, it turns out that a LUKS encrypted partition always begins with 'L', 'U', 'K', 'S', OxBA, 0xBE.

LUKS On-Disk Format:
http://code.google.com/p/cryptsetup/wiki/Specification

I will work on adding detection for LUKS encrypted partitions.
Comment 2 Curtis Gedak 2009-02-18 16:25:41 UTC 
The enhancement to detect LUKS encrypted partitions has been committed to the Gnome SVN repository for inclusion in the next release of GParted (0.4.4).

Please note that this enhancement adds detection only.  Another bug exists for supporting resizing of encrypted partitions (bug #171144)

Closing this bug.
Comment 3 Eric 2009-02-19 00:45:29 UTC 
Thanks Curtis! Can I paypal some pizza money to you?
Comment 4 Curtis Gedak 2009-02-19 16:13:19 UTC 
Hi Eric,

If you would like to make a donation, my paypal account is gedakc@gmail.com

Regards,
Curtis Gedak