problem reattaching GBDE-encrypted slice

[Stefan Krauß]

Hi Paul,

first of all thanks for your fast reply.

> >like some other guys on this list (have seen this in the archive)
> >I have a problem with an already running GBDE-encrypted slice. I
> >used this slice for about 3 months without any problems. The slice
> >(=ad0s3a) is about 38 GB in size and about 16 GB of this were free
> >to use (see fdisk and bsdlabel output at the end of this mail).
> >Yesterday I just put about 9-10GB of data on this slice and everything
> >seems to work just fine. After rebooting this morning I'm not able
> >anymore to attache the slice to gbde. I ente r the password, no
> >error message or something similar appears but I get now *.bde-device
> >file under /dev. The lock-file is dated to somewhere in Feb 23, and
> >I'm absolutely sure that I entered the right password (just tried
> >this about 50-times ;-)).
> 
> This is weird.  It sounds like the master key sector has been
> destroyed on the disk.

Is there a way to test this? Maybe some litte program to check?

If it is a problem with the master key sector, is there a possibility to recover from that error?


Best regards,
Stefan
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