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| author | Joerg Kastning <tronde@my-it-brain.de> | 2020-11-10 12:17:14 +0000 |
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| committer | Milan Broz <gmazyland@gmail.com> | 2020-11-12 12:14:47 +0100 |
| commit | b444d1ecd7944d6ac12417481519c6ad579e3144 (patch) | |
| tree | 2627f39bf566573ed890029e202a3b36428d751d /man | |
| parent | 04566703280df834029adaf674928376236ae4ee (diff) | |
| download | cryptsetup-b444d1ecd7944d6ac12417481519c6ad579e3144.tar.gz | |
Update cryptsetup.8
* Improved information about calling luksFormat on devices.
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| -rw-r--r-- | man/cryptsetup.8 | 2 |
1 files changed, 1 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/man/cryptsetup.8 b/man/cryptsetup.8 index 1215b800..0311dcc4 100644 --- a/man/cryptsetup.8 +++ b/man/cryptsetup.8 @@ -280,7 +280,7 @@ of reading the passphrase from a file you can give '-' as file name, which results in the passphrase being read from stdin and the safety-question being skipped. -In case the device you are going to call luksFormat on already contains a LUKS device that is mapped, you have to close the device first in order to be able to format it. +You cannot call luksFormat on a device or filesystem that is mapped or in use, e.g. mounted filesysem, used in LVM, active RAID member etc. The device or filesystem has to be un-mounted in order to call luksFormat. To use LUKS2, specify \fI\-\-type luks2\fR. |