I have a bit of chicken-and-egg problem trying to get encrypted removable devices to work as "normal" as possible. Using Loop-AES and a GPG-encrypted key I had no problems encrypting my external FW drive, but to pass all the options to losetup without entering them by hand every time, I need an fstab entry. The drive shows up as /dev/sda, but putting /dev/sda1 there is no good as it would try to use Loop-AES on *every* external drive. So far I could just use volume labels in my fstab to distinguish any number of drives---well, I used to until hald/dbus made that automatic. But now there are no labels any more as they get encrypted as well. Has anyone come up with a solution for this yet? I could imagine some plugin for the hotplug system that checks /proc/scsi/scsi for a certain model before mounting. Not the cleanest solution either but as my external drives are different models it would work for me. I don't have much of a clue about the hotplug system though...
regards
Matthias
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