Do my learned fellow linux enthousiasts know if there are different versions of losetup which are incompatible with each other?
I encounter the following:
I have two Linux distro's on my laptop.
1) Slackware 12.0, my main distro for use every day, all day
2) Ubuntu 7.10, to see if it is really user friendly.
I have a partition on my laptop on which I have created a encrypted (loopback) filesystem.
On slackware I can mount this with:
# losetup -e aes /dev/loop0 /dev/hda2
# mount .....
when I follow the exact same procedure on Ubuntu the mount fails with "unknown file system"
- I have tried specifying different key lengths using the -k parameter (none work)
- I can setup a new encrypted loopback filesystem on Ubuntu (which I then cannot read in Slackware).
- The 'losetup' commands are different (accept different parameters)
- when I mount my Slackware partition and use /slackpart/sbin/losetup I can mount the partition correctly. (So cryptoloop module and crypto subsystems are compatible between Slackware and Ubuntu.
Does anyone know if there are, in fact, different and
incompatible versions of losetup and why these incompatibilities exist giving that in the end, they use the same cryptoloop and crypto modules.
Regards,
Hans Voss.