[Pkg-cryptsetup-devel] Cannot mount crpyto partition - precheck for '/dev/hdb2' failed

[Matthias Kirschner]

Hello David,

* David Härdeman <david at hardeman.nu> [2007-08-30 14:52:54 +0200]:

> You could, as a first step, try to mount the device manually (using the
> cryptsetup binary directly) or by hacking the init scripts to skip the
> precheck. Be careful and do only read-only operations first to make sure
> no data is harmed (and fsck is probably a good idea).

I was able to mount it manually. After that just rebooted the machine
and it booted as usual, asked for my password and mounted the crypto
partition. Sorry I have not thought about it before to manually mount
the device.

Thank you very much for your help!

With best wishes,
Matze

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