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Subject: Re: problem reattaching GBDE-encrypted slice 
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In message <1255564800@web.de>, =?iso-8859-1?Q? "Stefan=20Krau=DF" ?= writes:
>Hi all,
>
>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.

I've been running with GBDE on my laptop since I wrote it and I
have never seen anything like this, so I am somewhat convinced
that it is not a bug in GBDE, but I am also not ruling it out.

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