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* Improved information about calling luksFormat on devices.
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Joerg Kastning
2020-11-10 12:17:14 +00:00
committed by Milan Broz
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@@ -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.