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Re: systemd and encrypted partition (was: grub and encrypted partition problem)

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On 2015-08-29 08:23:25 PM, Hans wrote:
> > > It would be nice, if someone could give me a clue, how to initialise the
> > > crypt related configurations.
> > 
> > How did you set up your partitions? Do you use cryptsetup? Did you fill
> > out the relevant entries in /etc/cryptab? What happens if you run
> > cryptdists_start?
> 
> Yes, I did this command (which I used on all my other computers as well):
> 
> cryptsetup -c aes-lrw-benbi -y -s 384 luksFormat /dev/sdaX
> 
> then I opened it with "cryptsetup luksOpen /dev/sdaX myname" and at last I 
> formatted it with "mkfs.ext4 /dev/mapper/myname".
> 
> In /etc/crypttab I got he correct entry
> 
> myname UUID=UUID_of_/dev/mapper/mynameblabla  none luks,retry=1,cipher=aes-
> lrb-benbi:sha256

The UUID should be the UUID of the encrypted device (/dev/sdaX above),
not the decrypted device (/dev/mapper/myname).

Does running the command cryptdisks_start work? AFAIK that is what gets
called during startup, so you can check your configuration without
rebooting.

Hope this helps,
MM

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systemd and encrypted partition (was: grub and encrypted partition problem) Hans <hans.ullrich@loop.de> - 2015-08-29 17:40 +0200
  Re: systemd and encrypted partition (was: grub and encrypted  partition problem) Matthew Moore <a91738246@gmail.com> - 2015-08-29 20:20 +0200
    Re: systemd and encrypted partition (was: grub and encrypted  partition problem) Matthew Moore <a91738246@gmail.com> - 2015-08-29 21:20 +0200

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