On Wednesday 30 Apr 2003 22:51, Bo Jacobsen wrote:
I'm trying to mount a file to the loopback device but the losetup command complains about it.
I'm using the command line: losetup -e twofish /dev/loop0 /root/testfile
losetup asks for a password but returns: ioctl: LOOP_SET_STATUS: invalid argument when one is entered
I think I recognise this one; I seem to remember that you have to make sure your losetup is the "international" one, with encryption support compiled in. I think I got around it by building the international version of util-linux (I seem to have the source here, so I must have patched it and compiled it myself at some point) and installing those versions of losetup/mount instead of the system ones. The last time I got a kernel update I had to patch the kernel to make it the international version, too, but all this might just be because I'm still plugging away on suse 7.2... All this was quite some time ago, though, so my memory may be playing tricks on me. I do have it working with twofish here, though. M -- "It's the small gaps between the rain that count, and learning how to live amongst them." -- Jeff Noon