[dm-crypt] Re: Help: problem with an encrypted USB drive

[email protected] (Peter Grandi) Sat, 24 Apr 2021 20:40:09 +0200
Newsgroups de.saout.dm-crypt
Message-ID <[email protected]>
> First, the USB drive started to change its permissions to
> *write protected* when I was doing file transfers. Then, I run
> the system utility tool fsck to check and fix the filesystem
> as I suspected that errors therein might cause the behaviour.

That is rather vague and not very useful.

> After running fsck unsuccessfully, the *USB drive stopped
> working altogether*

Most likely explanatuions: it is either defective or it has a
fake size. There are a lot of fake flash drives.

> My question is: Can the LUKS encryption itself cause the
> described behaviour?

No.
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