Moving encrypted partitions from Mandriva to Ubuntu

Red Hat based distros such as Mandriva use loop-aes and losetup that have some default options that are different from a debian based distribution such as Ubuntu which use dm-crypt. To mount my "old-school" encrypted volumes I had to use the loopaes script from Gary Larson. (I also had to install the hashalot package that the script needed.)

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