[Bug 1713175] Re: fsck should check before running on an encrypted LUKS partition

[asi]

One day cryptsetup will link to liblkid, adding two "use friendly" things in luksFormat
- warn if it detects something on disk before destroying it
- run wipefs to really destroy all the magic strings there (as Teo suggested)

So valid feature request also on the cryptsetup side, with the same low-
priority though :-)

-- 
You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu
Foundations Bugs, which is subscribed to e2fsprogs in Ubuntu.
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1713175

Title:
  fsck should check before running on an encrypted LUKS partition

Status in cryptsetup package in Ubuntu:
  Confirmed
Status in e2fsprogs package in Ubuntu:
  New
Status in util-linux package in Ubuntu:
  New

Bug description:
  fsck.ext4 runs on a LUKS partition and starts to correct inode
  entries, rendering the partition corrupted and useless. It seems like
  it should defensively check where it is an isLuks partition using
  "cryptsetup isLuks /dev/sda1" before continuing to modify it.

  I hope such a defensive check can be added.

To manage notifications about this bug go to:
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/cryptsetup/+bug/1713175/+subscriptions