I haven't tested it with password that contains space. Try escape with back slash key( \ ).
On Sun, Jul 29, 2012 at 12:30 AM, Todd And Margo Chester < toddandma...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Sat, Jul 28, 2012 at 9:40 PM, Todd And Margo Chester >> <toddandma...@gmail.com <mailto:toddandma...@gmail.com**>> wrote: >> >> Hi All, >> >> Xfce 4.8 >> Scientific Linux 6.2, 64 bit >> >> I have just encrypted my backup drive. Is there anyway >> to get it into my fstab? >> >> Problem is rebooting removed the label I created in >> /dev/mapper with >> >> # cryptsetup luksOpen /dev/sdb1 lin-bak >> >> and in fstab, I can add: >> /dev/mapper/lin-bak /lin-bak ext4 defaults 1 0 >> >> But "/dev/mapper/lin-bak" vanishes on me after a reboot. >> >> I can double click on the icon on my desktop and >> it will mount in "/media/lin-bak". But this plays >> havoc on my scripts. Gives me a long funny name >> in /dev/mapper too, which disappears when you >> dismount. >> >> Be nice to be able to get the drive into my fstab. >> If not, how do I mount it from the command line? >> >> If I try to mount directly, I get >> >> # mount /dev/sdb1 /lin-bak >> mount: unknown filesystem type 'crypto_LUKS' >> >> Perplexed, >> -T >> >> >> > On 07/28/2012 07:31 PM, Tam Nguyen wrote:> You need to map it in the file > /etc/crypttab. > > > > > You want to configure your /etc/crypttab file to look like this: > > lin-bak /dev/sdb1 > > > > Ah ha! Thank you! > > In /etc/crypttab, how do you handle passwords with spaces in > them? I think it gags on quote marks. > > -T >