On Friday 24 February 2006 15:18, Matthias Bethke wrote: > 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...
With udev you can create hardware-specific devices (meaning you can have a device in /dev that corresponds exactly to some particular hard disk), based on various hardware-specific information (eg, manufacturer name or device id and many others) See http://www.reactivated.net/writing_udev_rules.html for the details. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
