On Thu, Sep 4, 2008 at 2:48 PM, Andrea Bicciolo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>wrote:

> Alexander,
>
> a far as I know the mapping should be recreated each time you reboot using
> /sbin/cryptsetup. We are using luks extension and at each reboot we need to
> issue cryptsetup luksOpen </dev/name> <mappername>.


/etc/crypttab should make the use of this command unecessary. The passphrase
will then be asked at boot time.

Cheers,
Cassiano Leal

P.S.: Please, do not top post on the list. tx


>
>
> Then we can mount /dev/mapper/mappername.
>
> Hope this help,
> Andrea
>
> Alexander Golovin ha scritto:
>
>>  I was trying to encrypt my ext3 partition /dev/hda6, that's what I did:
>>
>> 1. I've added modules: aes, dm_mod, dm_crypt, to /etc/modules
>> 2. Created the cryptographic device mapper: cryptsetup -y create crypt
>> /dev/hda6 (entered passphrase twice)
>> 3. Changed this options: echo "crypt /dev/hda6" >> /etc/crypttab; echo
>> "/dev/mapper/crypt /mnt/crypt ext3 defaults 0 1" >> /etc/fstab
>> 4. Created mount directory; mkdir /mnt/crypt
>> 5. Created a filesystem on the mapped device: mkfs.ext3 /dev/mapper/crypt
>>  So, when I've tryied to mount /mnt/crypto It was mounted without
>> passphrase question, but it was mounted. But , after reboot I've tried to
>> mount my partition, and that what I have now:
>> # mount /mnt/crypt/
>> mount: special device /dev/mapper/crypt does not exist
>>
>> And I don't have a crypt file in /dev/mapper/ directory.
>>
>>
>>
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