Hi,
On Aug/02/2018, Matthew Crews wrote: > On 8/1/18 3:47 PM, Carles Pina i Estany wrote: > > > > Hi, > > > > I have a Debian Stretch and recently I added a new cyphered partition. > > All works well but I don't understand why and it's bothering me. > > *snip* > > > A question would be: > > a) How to enter the passphrase only once? > > b) When/where (scripts) and how is the passphrase stored? > > a) Short version: > > Use LVM to set up your partitions. This can be done in the installer. > Have your overall hierarchy look like this: I might do it another time - is that I'm more familiar (for when things go wrong, and only because I have more experience) with usual partition and not LVM and serve my purpose. As said, I might use LVM another time :-) I was asking "how to enter the passphrase only once" only to understand why I'm entering it twice and not three times :-) [...] > b) Read the manpage for cryptsetup. It has everything you need to > understand how LUKS encryption works. When I read it and also the initrd scripts I didn't understand why I need to type it twice only when I was expecting three times... if I need to read again some specific section let me know. I'll have another look just in case. Thanks for the other information! It might be handy at some point! :-) -- Carles Pina i Estany Web: http://pinux.info || Blog: http://pintant.cat GPG Key 0x8CD5C157